Is the promise for me?

"If you will diligently observe this entire commandment that I am commanding you, loving the Lord your God, walking in all his ways, and holding fast to him, then the Lord will drive out all these nations before you, and you will dispossess nations larger and mightier than yourselves. Every place on which you set foot shall be yours . . ." - Deuteronomy 11:22-24a

Dear Friends in Christ -

So here's what I really want to know when I read a passage like this from the Bible: Are the promises for ME? Or were the promises for THEM, and I'm just reading about them 4000 years later?

I SO badly want the promises to be for ME. I know that I don't get all the "loving the Lord your God, walking in all his ways" stuff right all the time, but I LONG to be rewarded for the things I do get right. I want to see the fulfillment of at least some of God's promises in the now.

It's at this point that I can practically see God sitting in the rocking chair in my office, chuckling under his breath and shaking his head. The evidence that God IS fulfilling his promises is literally all around me, in the roof over my head, in the scent of hot coffee in the air, in the nutritious breakfast comfortably digesting in my belly.

Perhaps if I focused on being grateful for those things rather than pouting about the unfolded laundry, the windy chill in the air and the work I still have to do, then Way would open for me to receive even more of His promises.

How about you . . . what's getting in the way of God's promises being fulfilled in your life?

May God's strength give us strength to live in His way and receive His goodness this day,
Janet+