Wish list, calmness...

I wish to be calm.

Listening to the well known Christmas carole, “Silent Night” makes me wish to always be calm.
Oh, I like a little excitement sometimes. (…never, ever, however, drama !!)



There is just nothing that will ever replace a calm heart. Nothing compares to a rest filled spirit.

I’ve been occupied today with a word study about ‘rest’.

God has made it possible for me to be calm….He has provided the possibility of rest.

For me, and for all believers. For you if you choose to receive it…



I sit at His feet, and know calmness.

“…all is calm…”

I feast on His recorded Word and get new glimpses of His majesty.

“…glory streams, from heaven afar…”

I revel in His love for me, His forever outstretched Hand, even in the face of my sin and imperfection.

“…with the dawn of redeeming grace…”



“Christ, my Savior, is born…”

Wishes, discernment....

I wish to be more discerning.

I want to recognize right from wrong. Immediately.
I want to recognize good from bad. Instantly.
I want to recognize the vital from the trivial. Consistently.

I want to have my conscience trained.
I want my senses to be alert.
I want my mind clear and focused.
I want my body responding to my spirit and not my flesh.

I want my spiritual eyes to be keen.
I want my spiritual taste to be for truth.
I want to distinguish what is pleasing and what is provoking to my Creator.

I want to recognize what is helpful, and what is hurtful to my body, my spirit, my soul.
I want to recognize temptation before it gets to me, long before I become trapped or involved.
I want to use scripture as it is intended by God, not to suit my own purposes.

“O LORD, you have searched me and you know me. You know when I sit and when I rise; you perceive my thoughts from afar……. you are familiar with all my ways. Before a word is on my tongue you know it completely, O LORD.”(Ps. 139:1-4)

“…. Keep your servant also from willful sins; may they not rule over me…. May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be pleasing in your sight, O LORD, my Rock and my Redeemer.” (Ps. 19:13,14)


I live in a body of flesh. But I am a spiritual being and I have a soul.

Personal sin is not just offensive to God, it is hurtful to me. What is displeasing to Him is even more so because of the effect it has on me, His creation.

My sin hurts Him….and me.

Even if I don’t discern it at the moment.

I wish to be more and more discerning.

Wish Lists....

This is the time of year we hear a lot about wishes. Children have long lists, often very expensive ones.

I begin my wish list tonight.

It will NOT be a regret list.

It won’t be a list of things I wish I hadn’t done or said.

A wish is a desire. What is it that I really desire?

The words recorded in Psalm 37:4 have long been a very personal message to me…… “Delight yourself in the LORD and He will give you the desires of your heart.”

The message in that verse is not a matter of how to get what you want.

It isn’t about kissing up to God so He’ll give us everything on our wish list.

It IS, however, about the desire of our hearts being met.

How? Where from ?

Certainly not the North Pole or the fancies of department stores.

The wishes of my heart will never be realized by anything I can do. I can’t buy it, you can’t furnish it.

I wish to know Him better than I know Him now. Not so He will give me anything.

But because He already has.

He has given me life eternal......I wish to know Him as never before.