Are you seeking the gifts or the Giver?
 

Are you seeking the gifts or the Giver?
Sometimes we get so caught up in seeking God's presents that we forget all about His presence! God wants every believer to remain in His presence and have a personal relationship with Him just like you would with any other friend.
King David knew the importance of seeking God's presence and dwelling with Him. In Psalm 27:4, David writes, One thing I ask of the Lord, this is what I seek: that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to gaze upon the beauty of the Lord and to seek him in his temple. David set himself to seek and require one thing--God's presence.
The next two verses (Psalm 27:5-6) tell us the rewards of seeking God: For in the day of trouble He will keep me safe in His dwelling; He will hide me in the shelter of His tabernacle and set me high upon a rock. Then my head will be exalted above the enemies who surround me; at His tabernacle will I sacrifice with shouts of joy; I will sing and make music to the Lord.
The rewards of seeking God are awesome; not only will you develop a closer relationship with God, but you will also find true joy and contentment.
Psalm 16:11 says, You will fill me with joy in your presence. In other words, joy is found in God's presence--not His presents! Therefore, evaluate your life to make sure that you're seeking God, not just His gifts. --Weekly Wisdom

His presence in my life is my gift!!! I know He is no only with me He is within me. That is so awesome!

Really liked this. I always believed that I had to go to the Giver in order to receive and get. It is never about the gifts, because most times I don't know what I am going to get.

The difference over my life has been that personal relationship with my God.

The gifts are priceless. You can't put a price on a sun beam, a flower, or running into an old friend, and the list goes on and on. As my meditation said one day, "Give thanks it is on it's way." I didn't know what it was, but I said, "Thank you, thank you, thank you." It ended up money and two bags of groceries to baby sit my fiend's daughter for the weekend. She was a special gift, so smart and so gifted, and she grew up as an AA baby.

Some times we pray and ask, but are not open to receive, especially if it comes in a form we don't want to recognize or accept.

I don't expect anything, I just ask that it be given. Who am I to know what someone actual needs? I may think I know what I need, but there just might be a lesson or an experience that I need to go through, a new awareness, a spiritual change, a new knowing, and I may need to let go of a barrier, that blocks me from getting what I need, be it from God or others.

Let us all have a little talk with our God. He will see you through.

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