Search Me

Sunday, November 30, 2025

Good morning, Lord

Father in Heaven, I seek You first-the knowledge of Your kingdom and Your righteousness. Fill my consciousness constantly and complete Your joy in me as I take up my cross and follow...In Jesus' name…

Memory verse: Psalm 27:13-14 (NIV)

“I remain confident of this, I will see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living. Wait for the Lord; be strong and take heart and wait for the Lord.”

Verse of the day: 2 Peter 3:10-11

10 “But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, and then the heavens will pass away with a roar, and the heavenly bodies will be burned up and dissolved, and the earth and the works that are done on it will be exposed.

11 Since all these things are thus to be dissolved, what sort of people ought you to be in lives of holiness and godliness?”

Today’s reading: Ezekiel 37-39 2 Peter 2

  As In Heaven

The model prayer, or what we call the 'Lord's Prayer', has a curious line in it. Have you ever wondered what it means when it says:

"Your will be done on earth as it is in Heaven"? I take this to mean that the Lord wants us to ask for His help in living in obedience as do the Heavenly beings. There is no sin in Heaven.

Peter is teaching about men of dark sin who try to get everyone else to live in sin as they do in 2 Peter 2:11:

9 "...And the Lord will hold evil people to punish them on the day of judgment. 10 That punishment is for those who are always doing the evil that their sinful selves want to do. It is for those who hate the Lord’s authority.

These false teachers do whatever they want, and they are so proud of themselves. They are not afraid to say bad things against the glorious ones. 11 The angels are much stronger and more powerful than these beings. But even the angels don’t accuse them and say bad things about them to the Lord."

The angels do not pass judgement. They do not judge. We are to endeavor to live as those in Heaven live. We are not to judge.

As we pray for God to 'forgive us...as we forgive...', should we also pray for God to 'keep us from judgement'?

I cannot answer for you. I only know that it is really hard to not judge those in the world that think I am crazy for my beliefs. But if I judge them, doesn't that make me just like them?

The point is: we know our own sin-always make it a matter of prayer. Jesus did not sin/does not sin-the angels do not sin-God wants us to be truthful with Him as well as ourselves and take the truthful view of our actions and thoughts.

King David said, "Search me and know my heart...",Psalm 139:23, 24

We need to search our own hearts before God-

--just get it done---

As it is in Heaven...

...because He loves us...

Father in Heaven,

Forgive me for trying to get away with whatever it is...make me truthful-desiring truth-desiring Your heart.

Tender and merciful, loving God...

In the name of Jesus,

Amen