By Now

By now, we should recognize this as the message the Spirit keeps returning us to.

I woke up this morning with a quiet certainty: the Scripture is true when it says that God does not see the way we see. His ways are higher than our ways, and His thoughts higher than our thoughts. And perhaps one of our most necessary daily prayers is this simple one:

“Lord, align me.”

Help me yield not just in obedience, but in perception.

Help me yield to Your thoughts, to Your seeing, to Your way of interpreting my life.

Because while Scripture declares that His ways are higher, it also promises that through the Holy Spirit we are given utterings groans too deep for words. The Spirit helps us see what the natural eye cannot see. He helps us discern what ordinary understanding would overlook.

On this final, beautiful day of my time in Asia, my prayer is this:

Lord, help me to see the way You see.

I often find alignment comes easily when I am discerning other people’s lives but I struggle when it comes to my own. And this morning, I was reminded again how radically different God’s vision is from ours.

I thought of Rahab the prostitute who hid the spies and found herself woven into the genealogy of Jesus Christ. By human standards, she was disqualified. By God’s standards, she was chosen.

I thought of the woman who poured oil at Jesus’ feet never named, never respectable, never the obvious candidate. And yet her story is told wherever the gospel is preached. Conferences are named after her. Songs are written about her worship.

I thought of Abraham called by God, yet fearful enough to lie about Sarah to protect himself. Still, he becomes the father of faith.

I thought of Moses a murderer and a deliverer, carrying both contradiction and calling.

I thought of David an adulterer, deeply flawed, yet described by God Himself as a man after My own heart.

I thought of Samson his strength lost through disobedience, yet restored in his final moments, where he accomplishes more in death than in life.

I thought of Peter bold, impulsive, rebuked by Jesus with the words “Get behind me, Satan,” and yet entrusted with the keys of the Kingdom. And I thought of Daniel faithful and righteous, used mightily in a foreign land.

If we truly believed the Scriptures if we believed, at a subconscious level, that God is the same yesterday, today, and forever we would know this:

We are still His candidates.

We would stop pretending that salvation makes us flawless. We would stop judging people by appearance, background, continent, skin color, or past failure. We would stop assuming that history disqualifies destiny. Because when God chooses a vessel, He is not consulting human metrics.

I am not advocating disobedience or presumption. I am not saying we should sin and expect grace to clean up our consequences. I am saying this:

God’s ways remain higher, always.

And His purposes often unfold in ways we could never predict. We do not know how He will use a person. We do not know how He will redeem a situation. We do not know what He is forming in hidden places.

So our daily prayer must become this: Lord, help me to yield always to Your thoughts and to Your ways.

Help me not to miss a single thing You have prepared for me today. I do not want to miss a single angel You have placed on my path.

I do not want to miss a single assignment You have entrusted to me. Align my sight with Yours. Align my heart with Yours. Align my steps with Yours. Let there be alignment to the way You see, to the way You think, to the way You move.

In the most precious name of Jesus, help me align.