"Where can I go from your Spirit? Or where can I flee from Your presence? If I ascend up into heaven, You are there; if I make my bed in hell, behold, You are there." (Psalms 139:7-8)

This psalm from David makes it quite clear that we can not hide from our great lover, the King of Kings and Lord of Lords. He has promised that He will never leave us nor forsake us, even when we might be watching a Dallas Cowboys football game. If it requires mercy on the part of God to go with us wherever we go we are told that this is what He will do. Glory!

I have been working with a young man that has a great number of problems and has been walking for years under a cloud of sin conciousness. Praise God that he is now able to put his can of snuff out on the table in front of me and not be in fear of me rejecting him for this conceived terrible sin. His list is long and varied of all the things he is doing that would displease God, so he thinks.

We spent the night together on Monday when Dallas played the Buffalo Bills and he had gone to sleep in the 4th quarter and I stayed tuned in till the game was almost over with only 20 seconds to play. Dallas was in no place where they could win the game, or at least in my mind, so I decided to turn the TV off and as I was doing so I heard this still small voice whisper to me that the game was in fact no over. My mind was already made up and I switched the off switch.

The next morning my new disciple asked me who won and I told him the Bills. He flipped on the TV and they were replaying the last 20 seconds where amazingly the Dallas team had recovered an on side kick and went on to convert this turn over into a game winning score. I then remembered that during the night I heard that same voice whisper to me that Dallas had won. I was amazed to watch the Lord use this whole experience to teach my friend a valuable lesson.

The previous evening my friend had lost his car keys and became very distraught with himself and the Lord. In a moment of desperation he was down on his knees begging God to show me where his keys were and amazingly the Lord showed me where he had laid his keys and sure enough he went and found his keys. I have told him over and over that we are hearing His voice because we are His sheep. The problem with all of us is that sometimes we simply make up our mind to not pay attention.

"If you are willing and obedient, you shall eat the good of the land; but if you refuse and rebel, you will be devoured by the sword, for the mouth of the Lord has spoken it." (Isaiah 1:19-20)

The longer I walk with the Lord the more grateful I am to Him for His tender mercies. David reminded the Lord that he was only dust which is saying in another way that we must not take ourselves too seriously. Let us endeavor to let God be God. His great love and mercy goes with us in our walk with Him.

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