Setting Our Eyes on the Lord

Psalm 123:2

Behold, as the eyes of servants look to the hand of their master, as the eyes of a maidservant to the hand of her mistress, so our eyes look to the LORD our God, till he has mercy upon us.

Through His love, His grace and His mercy, we are called to be servants of Almighty God here on earth and in heaven for all eternity.  We were created in His image for this purpose in order to bring Him praise and glory.  Being conscious of our own weakness, we should wait on and look to Our Master for our direction and our strength. 

Our focus needs to be on God at all times.  We should be expectant that He will direct our ways and make provision for the fulfillment of our calling.  We should understand that He will set the limits of how high He is ready for us to go and He will set the timing of when we will get there.  We should recognize that He knows exactly what He has planned for our lives and the lives of those around us. 

If we focus on our problems or our visions without including Our Heavenly Father in the process, we will set expectations for ourselves that are outside of God's will for our lives.  We will be setting ourselves up for burn out or for seeing results that are disappointing to us.  It is almost certain that we will not go as high as God had planned for us or that we will give up on our calling before it is fulfilled because we are not in tune with God's timing.

Prayer

Heavenly Father, we thank You for allowing us to be Your servants.  We rejoice in knowing that just as the slaves go to their master for all of their needs, we can go to You for all of our needs.  We pray, Lord, that just as the slaves wait on their master before they do anything, we will learn to wait on the direction of Your Holy Spirit before we take on anything.  We ask that our entire reliance be in Your hand, Almighty God.  May we reach the heights of the supreme service that You have planned for us. We ask all these things in the name of Our Lord, Our Master and Our King, Jesus Christ.