Saturday 14th February

Quiet your heart and mind. Breathe deeply and exhale slowly. Imagine going to a high place with Jesus. Let the excitement grow in you as you follow Him and wait for what He wants to show you.

“Ascribe to the Lord the glory due his name; bring an offering and come into his courts."

Psalm 96:8

Ponder: What experiences in your life have filled your heart with amazement at God’s greatness?

Scripture

I will give thanks to you, Lord, with all my heart; I will tell of all your wonderful deeds. I will be glad and rejoice in you; I will sing the praises of your name, O Most High.

Psalm 9:1-2      

First, imagine Jesus is focusing on you, looking you right in the eye, and holding out a gift for you. Hear Him pray this over you. Read the blessing again slowly. What do you notice?

A DAILY BECOMING

Ever heard of Schrödinger’s cat?

In the 1930s, Erwin Schrödinger, an Austrian physicist, used the thought experiment of a poor little cat in a box with a deadly but unpredictable poison to help explain the idea that multiple possible realities co-exist, until observed. The box contained both a live cat and a dead cat at the same time, but when the box was opened, one of these scenarios ceased to exist leaving only the one we see. I always hoped the cat made it.

Psalm 37:4 says, “Delight in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart." It took me a while to read this as, “When I focus on my relationship with God, and being who he wants me to be, then my desires begin to align with his will." This is not about getting anything I want, but receiving what is truly best for me.

So my story of transformation is the slow and ongoing one God is working in me over the years, as I live through this verse, becoming increasingly joyful in the seasons I am in.

For this, I daily praise God.

There may or may not have been multiple possible versions of me, or indeed you - a disturbing thought right there - but the only one that exists in the present is the one that made multiple small decisions to delight in the Lord, allowing Him to gently bend my will to His. This is not subjugation, but freedom.

For this, I daily praise God.

My cat is doing fine.

Mark Prothero, Regional Vice President/West Asia, United Kingdom

Tell God what you noticed about His working in this story. Tell God how this makes you feel about Him. Speak out 5 attributes of God that this story makes you think of. ‘God you are…’