I Got Nothing

So Monday came and my first thought was " I got nothing."

And as the day rolled on...and into Tuesday (and beyond) those same words began to move...in a couple of directions!

When I feel like I have NOTHING....

I have nothing there..He always does!!

He always has something....something for me! 

He takes my nothing and makes something.

My brain is sometimes a vast empty void... just like the earth before God breathed life into the universe.

📖 Now the earth was formless and empty, Genesis 1:2a

He gives me thoughts,  words, ideas... through His Word; through a devotion, a song, nature, a child...it all leads back to His word. 

He fills the void.

Sometimes it is complete and all at once ...and other times I need to take more time and meditate on it...search things....to know Him and His ways more fully.

📖 Cause me to understand the way of your precepts, that I may meditate on your wonderful deeds. Psalm 119:27

Understanding that I am passing on His words.

📖  “For my thoughts are not your thoughts,
    neither are your ways my ways,”
declares the Lord. Isaiah 55:8

Another direction;

"I HAVE nothing " ...without Him I have nothing. All I have is a blessing from Him.

📖 Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows. He chose to give us birth through the word of truth, that we might be a kind of firstfruits of all he created. James.1:17-18

I deserve nothing....not self-effacing or self depreciating..but a truly humble heart and spirit....

📖 But as for me, I am poor and needy;

    may the Lord think of me.
You are my help and my deliverer;
    you are my God, do not delay. Psalm 40:17

📖   What a wretched man I am!  Who will rescue me from this body that is subject to death? Thanks be to God, who delivers me through Jesus Christ our Lord!

Romans 7:24-25

Humility is the key 🔑 

Understanding we deserve nothing but punishment and death....but by His mercy ..we do not get what we deserve, He took paid that debt.

And by His grace we get those things which we do not deserve, we recieve blessings. 

Trying to be as Christ like as we can;

📖 In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus: Who, being in the very nature God,  did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage; rather, he made himself nothing  by taking the very nature of a servant being made in human likeness. And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself  by bbecoming obedient to death - even death on a cross! Therefore God exalted him to the hhighest place and gave him the name that is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord,  to the glory of God the Father.  Philippians 2:5-11

He loves us, wretched as we are, coming before Him with nothing.

📖 But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.   Romans 5:8

🎶Just as I am, without one plea, But that Thy blood was shed for me, And that Thou bid’st me come to Thee, O Lamb of God, I come! I come!

                       Just as I am, poor, wretched, blind;
                       Sight, riches, healing of the mind;
                       Yes, all I need, in Thee to find,
                       O Lamb of God, I come, I come!🎶

🙏 My prayer is that you come to Him, with nothing, and let Him do the rest. ❤

🎵 Just As I Am. Alan Jackson