{"id":2141,"date":"2020-04-08T06:42:52","date_gmt":"2020-04-08T14:42:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/?p=2141"},"modified":"2020-04-08T06:42:52","modified_gmt":"2020-04-08T14:42:52","slug":"devotion-psalm-274-5-oneonly-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/?p=2141","title":{"rendered":"Devotion Psalm 27:4-5 One\u2026Only One"},"content":{"rendered":"

Psalm 27:4-5<\/b>\u00a0–\u00a0One thing I ask from the\u00a0Lord<\/span>, this only do I seek: that I may dwell in the house of the\u00a0Lord\u00a0<\/span>all the days of my life, to gaze on the beauty of the\u00a0Lord\u00a0<\/span>and to seek Him in His temple.\u00a0 For in the day of trouble He will keep me safe in his dwelling; He will hide me in the shelter of His sacred tent and set me high upon a rock.<\/i><\/p>\n

\u201c<\/span>One thing I ask from the\u00a0Lord<\/span>, this only do I seek<\/i>:\u00a0that I may dwell in the house of the\u00a0Lord\u00a0<\/span>all the days of my life, to gaze on the beauty of the\u00a0Lord\u00a0<\/span>and to seek Him in His temple.<\/i>\u201d\u00a0 Some of you may remember a famous scene from the movie City Slickers where Jack Palance is playing an old cowboy sage (Curly) and Billy Crystal is playing a city slicker (Mitch) who has come to a dude ranch where the two meet. \u00a0In this scene Curly tells Mitch what he considers the secret to life.\u00a0 He lifts up his index finger tells Mitch that the secret is do one thing. \u00a0Only one thing.\u00a0 Mitch then asks him what is the one thing?\u00a0 Curly tells him that is what he needs to find out for himself.\u00a0 That, for me, and many others, was a wow moment.<\/p>\n

I believe the Lord used it that scene to create an epiphany for me.\u00a0\u00a0I can picture King David talking to a young man who is asking him what the secret of life is.\u00a0\u00a0King David would look at him and tell him about this Psalm.\u00a0\u00a0He would tell the young man that nothing and no-one is more beautiful than God and His love for us.\u00a0\u00a0King David would look deeply in the younger man\u2019s eyes, and say with all solemnity and with fire in his own eyes, that we can tell what we love the most by what we most do not want to lose.\u00a0\u00a0He would tell the young man that for him, it is that he never wants to be out of the presence of God.\u00a0\u00a0For King David to not live with God\u2019s Holy Spirit would be something that he could not bear. (Psalm 51:11<\/b>)\u00a0\u00a0Then King David would look at the young man and say \u201cSo, my friend, what is the one thing in your life that you cannot live without?\u00a0\u00a0If it is anything other than God, than the day may come that you will have to live without it, or him, or her.\u00a0\u00a0But if it is God, Him you can have and never lose.\u201d<\/p>\n

One thing.\u00a0\u00a0Curly told Mitch to find the one thing that will satisfy his life.\u00a0\u00a0Like it is different for different people.\u00a0\u00a0But that is not true.\u00a0\u00a0It is true that the secret is \u201cone thing,\u201d but the truth is, the \u201cone thing\u201d is the same for everyone.\u00a0\u00a0The \u201cOne Thing\u201d is God.\u00a0\u00a0Only He, once received, will never leave, will never die and cannot be taken away. (Romans 8:38<\/b>)\u00a0\u00a0Many say there is no such thing as a \u201csure thing.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0But that is wrong.\u00a0\u00a0God is a sure thing.\u00a0\u00a0We all need to decide if we want the sure thing, the one thing that is Jesus, or if we want the uncertain things that ultimately lead to, if not changed, eternal regret and eternal pain.\u00a0\u00a0I thank God for all of you who personally know and cling to the universal One whom we can never lose and who will never cast us away.\u00a0\u00a0(Matthew 11:28-30<\/b>)\u00a0\u00a0Jesus is the true lover of our souls.\u00a0\u00a0In this life it is never too late to come to Jesus.\u00a0\u00a0I truly, with all my heart, hope you do.\u00a0\u00a0God is good.\u00a0\u00a0He loves us.\u00a0\u00a0I am so thankful!\u00a0\u00a0Praise God!<\/p>\n

Acts 17:27<\/b>\u00a0\u201cGod did this so that they would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from any one of us.\u201d<\/i><\/div>\n
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P<\/b><\/span>salm 150:6<\/b>\u00a0–\u00a0Let everything that has breath praise the Lord.\u00a0 Praise the Lord!<\/p>\n

Micah 7:7<\/b>\u00a0–\u00a0But as for me, I watch\u00a0in hope\u00a0for the\u00a0Lord, I wait for God my Savior; my God will hear\u00a0me.<\/p>\n

Micah 6:8<\/b>\u00a0–\u00a0He has shown You, O man, what\u00a0is\u00a0good; and what does the\u00a0Lord\u00a0require of You but to do justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with Your God.<\/p>\n

Numbers 6:24-26<\/b>\u00a0\u201cThe\u00a0Lord\u00a0bless you and keep you; 25\u00a0the\u00a0Lord\u00a0make His face shine on you and be gracious to you; 26\u00a0the\u00a0Lord\u00a0turn His face\u00a0toward you and give you peace.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Psalm 27:4-5\u00a0–\u00a0One thing I ask from the\u00a0Lord, this only do I seek: that I may dwell in the house of the\u00a0Lord\u00a0all the days of my life, to gaze on the beauty of the\u00a0Lord\u00a0and to seek Him in His temple.\u00a0 For in the day of trouble He will keep me safe in his dwelling; He will…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1192],"tags":[82,101,94,1874,17,10],"class_list":["post-2141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devotion","tag-acts","tag-matthew","tag-micah","tag-numbers","tag-psalm","tag-romans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2141"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2142,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2141\/revisions\/2142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}