Scripture:

Jeremiah 33:3

3 ‘Call to Me, and I will answer you, and show you great and mighty things, which you do not know.’

Resourcing Heaven 

As a parent, you want the best for your children, even when they are at their worst, even when you are so frustrated with them because they are doing what you told them not to do; even then, you want the best for them.  This is where we find God in this verse: a people, His children who have been just wickedly bad; they have not kept His commandments, not followed His way, yet we find the Lord pointing us to the good that He wants to do in our lives. 

See, this is a loving Father telling His children: "Call to me."   See, your greatest resource is Him, the Lord; He has the power to accomplish anything.   But here I don't simply see the opportunity to get something, but rather the opportunity to give something, my life, to recognize that I need Him in every movement of my life.   I "Call to Him" because I need Him, I trust Him, He has everything I need to live, to overcome, to succeed.

Three things: 

• An Invitation to Pray: The Lord invites us to talk to Him openly.   Bring Him everything.
• A Promise to Answer: God promises that He hears the prayer and will reply
• Greater Things:  God has greater things, greater wisdom, greater plans than we could ever have imagined.

Today our God-Shot is that we would turn back to Him, even when we have been so distant that we would CALL out to Him, to trust Him with our lives, with our obedience, that we would TURN back to Him, to recognize like David: "Better is one day in His house, than a thousand elsewhere."   Better to be with Him than anywhere else.   

Lord, help us to lean into you, to trust you when we are near, and in the days we have messed up and are distant, let our hearts always be surrendered to you, to know that you have the unsearchable things, great and wondrous things; you have the answer to all that we need and could ever need. Teach us to rely on you every day and in every way in Jesus' name, Amen!