Day 23-My Chest

The Man in the Mirror Journey

is a journey of walking out of a tomb and recognizing everyday the beauty and significance of how God created us. Instead of rebounding and finding esteem in the arms of someone else, these are the step to seeing it in the arms of God

Day 23

My Chest

The Old Reflection

Deuteronomy 1:43

I told you but you wouldn't listen. You rebelled at the plain word of God.

You threw out your CHEST and strutted into the hills.

And those Amorites, who had lived in those hills all their lives, swarmed all over you like a hive of bees, chasing you from Seir all the way to Hormah, a stinging defeat.

You came back and wept in the presence of God,

but he didn't pay a bit of attention to you;

God didn't give you the time of day.

You stayed there in Kadesh a long time, about as long as you had stayed there earlier.

The New Reflection

Exodus 25:16
"Place The Testimony that I give you in the Chest.

Joel 3:9

Announce this to the godless nations: Prepare for battle!

Soldiers at attention! Present arms! Advance! Turn your shovels into swords, turn your hoes into spears. Let the weak one throw out his chest and say, "I'm tough, I'm a fighter." Hurry up, pagans! Wherever you are, get a move on!

Get your act together. Prepare to be shattered by God!

Romans 10:4

The earlier revelation was intended simply to get us ready for the Messiah, who then puts everything right for those who trust him to do it. Moses wrote that anyone who insists on using the law code to live right before God soon discovers it's not so easy—every detail of life regulated by fine print! But trusting God to shape the right living in us is a different story— no precarious climb up to heaven to recruit the Messiah, no dangerous descent into hell to rescue the Messiah. So what exactly was Moses saying? The word that saves is right here, as near as the tongue in your mouth, as close as the heart in your chest.

It's the word of faith that welcomes God to go to work and set things right for us.

This is the core of our preaching.

Say the welcoming word to God—"Jesus is my Master"—embracing, body and soul, God's work of doing in us what he did in raising Jesus from the dead. That's it. You're not "doing" anything; you're simply calling out to God, trusting him to do it for you. That's salvation. With your whole being you embrace God setting things right, and then you say it, right out loud: "God has set everything right between him and me!"

Prayer

The God of all creation we call out to you this day thanking you for a chest that marches before us in battle! The chest that keeps the testimony inside! We stand assured that the process is for you Glory and thank you for the process!

We stand on it! The word! The convenat with your people!

God I have to admit that I want the feelings in my chest to go away. I thought they be gone by now...

In Jesus name we pray

Amen