Romans 8:32 (English Standard Version) He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things?

Now that I am home again and life returns to normal, I begin my day seeking what we, me and the Lord, are going to say. Seeking isn’t all that hard with the right heart attitude and that more than anything is what being home is all about.

Being away from home there are so many concerns. Traveling 3990 miles by car on the interstates across America being one of them. My wife got to see strange and wonderful sites. All I got to see was bumpers and headlights. But even when we were in a place of relaxation it wasn’t home. We weren’t settled.

So considering all that, why do I once again post BibleGateway’s verse of the day? It is not because I am lazy or settled for the first thing I see. It has to do with expectations.

What is on your list of all things you expect God the Father to give us so graciously?

While you run down the list of things you want, let me share with you my list of wrong things.

Anything that does not come through Christ is wrong.

It is so easy to overlook the obvious in the heated moment of need. Before the words “graciously give” are the words “with Him”. It is so easy to forget that Jesus didn’t have a place of His own in this world to call home. No career once He began His ministry. Doing the will of the Father was everything to Him. Now, following Jesus, doing the will of the Father, do we really expect “everything”?

Yes I have a car but Jesus didn’t give it to me. My career made that possible. Yes I live in a nice house but it isn’t my home. Home is where the heart is and everything I need comes from the abundance of my heart.

Psalm 5:7 But I, through the abundance of your steadfast love, will enter your house. I will bow down toward your holy temple in the fear of you.

My body is His temple, and in it abides His abundant love and that is everything.

Give no thought to the clothes you wear, the car you drive, the house that isn’t a home, or the food you eat, which is not manna from heaven.

Love is everything and without it, none of it matters.

Psalm 42:8 (English Standard Version) By day the Lord commands his steadfast love, and at night his song is with me, a prayer to the God of my life.

The multiple names for our God can sometimes be confusing. Those things He does are not who He is, is it? The Father creator of all things sure but He wasn’t alone. The Son was with Him and in John’s gospel The Word was God and created all things. Then there is the Holy Spirit, He was there too hovering over the depths. God is One and I am not sure that has ever changed.

I can say I am not sure because I have limited capacity. 

Revelation 2:17 Whoever has ears, let them hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who is victorious, I will give some of the hidden manna. I will also give that person a white stone with a new name written on it, known only to the one who receives it.

It would appear that even in the end there are limits. Some manna, not all, and a name no one else knows. If no one knows my new name how will they ever find me or call me?

If in eternity we shall have limited knowledge then why should we think we know it all now?

What I hear in the verse of the day is love, comfort and communion. Should we ask for anything more? But we do, don’t we?

Philippians 4:6 do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.

YHWH-Yireh — “The Lord will provide” is just another name for what God does and He would rather provide for us than for us to get it from the “other” side.

So this is our last day of travel and the last of my Daily Verse series. Tomorrow I will be back to normal, whatever that is.