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One thing I have asked from the LORD, that will I seek after— for me to dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to see the beauty of the LORD, and to inquire in His temple.

Psalm 27:4, MEV

I love those memes and comments that take a statement that was given, they agree with, and with thumbs or arrows point to it with the word “THIS” written in big letters between. When hearing these words, doesn’t that idea fit? Doesn’t everyone want this? Sadly, no. As the Word is written more on our hearts, this is more of a reality, though. God’s Word is meant to realign our hearts and minds, refocusing our priorities. Praying to God isn’t efficient, nor is studying God’s Word. God deliberately causes us to slow down. We like to act quickly and make things happen. God could do things that way, but He doesn’t. Why? He doesn’t want us to be further harmed or washed away in His action. There was a time after Creation when God acted quickly, and it was over hundreds of years, and He created a global flood that spared only eight people. The next action that He took was over thousands of years, and He died, taking our sins on the cross for the sake of all people. When our Lord acts next will be the end of all that we know, and He desires to not only save us who are with Him now, but all of His chosen that are yet to come. It is in this that we are to find our peace.

Let us pray. I thank you, my heavenly Father, through Jesus Christ, your dear Son, that you have kept me this night from all harm and danger, and I ask you to protect me this day also from sin and every evil, that in all I do today, I may please you. For into your hands, I commend myself, my body and soul, and all that is mine. Let your holy angel watch over me, that the wicked foe have no power over me. Amen.