Cling to Him

“Cling to me.” Those are God’s words to me that I hear over and over again. “Cling to me. Trust me. Let me be your everything. Let me alone be enough.” I get so tired of messing up over and over again. It seems like God should be so frustrated with me right now! I know I am! I know what God has spoken to me; I know He’s always right. So then tell me, why do I keep following my flesh and messing up? I know the answer. It’s my sin nature… It’s what constantly reminds me that I am in desperate need of a Savior. I need Him to love me. I am weak and I have to rely completely on His strength. My God is faithful. Always. Right when I think that I’m starting to trust Him, He reveals to me another area of my life that I need to lay down before Him. He points His gentle finger to a piece that I still hold in my grasp and says, “I want that too. Do you trust me? Do you trust that I can give you way better than you could ever imagine? Will you allow me to have control? Have I not already shown you how much I love you and desire the absolute best for you? I know you’re afraid, but trust me. I promise it will be worth it. You will never regret it.” God continues to teach me more and more about Himself. He is full of grace, love, compassion, trustworthiness. He longs to protect, provide, and sustain. I believe that when my heart starts to wonder away and my desire for God begins to fade, it is because I lose sight of His worthiness, His greatness, His complete brilliance and astounding power! I forget how worthy He is of my everything. God wants to bless me so richly and take me into incredible things, but I must be obedient to Him. I have to trust Him and give Him everything I have. Every part. I have to follow the things that He has told me and allow Him to guide me. I have to lay aside my selfish will and ambition. I have to burn my idols and love God with all of my heart, mind, and soul. I must place Him above everything. Yes, I will fail, and God knows that, but that is when He tenderly reaches down with an outstretched arm, picks me up and dusts me off and says, “Okay, try again. I’m here helping you. You are not alone. We’re working on this together.” My relationship with God is above everything else I could ever imagine!

Deuteronomy 11:8-17; 13:4“You shall therefore keep every commandment which I am commanding you today, so that you may be strong and go in and possess the land into which you are about to cross to possess it; so that you may prolong your days on the land which the Lord swore to your fathers to give to them and their descendants, a land flowing with milk and honey. For the land, into which you are entering to possess it, is not like the land of Egypt from which you came, where you used to sow your seed and water it with your foot like a vegetable garden. But the land into which you are about to cross to possess it, a land of hills and valleys, drinks water from the rain of heaven, a land for which the Lord your God cares; the eyes of the Lord your God are always on it, from the beginning even to the end of the year. It shall come about, if you listen obediently to my commandments which I am commanding you today, to love the Lord your God and to serve Him with all your heart and all your soul, that He will give the rain for your land in its season, the early and late rain, that you may gather in your grain and your new wine and your oil…. Beware that your hearts are not deceived, and that you do not turn away and serve other gods and worship them. Or the anger of the Lord will be kindled against you, and He will shut up the heavens so that there will be no rain and the ground will not yield its fruit; and you will perish quickly from the good land which the Lord is giving you.”

“You shall follow the Lord your God and fear Him; and you shall keep His commandments, listen to His voice, serve Him, and cling to Him.”