It' been awhile since I've been here. But something caught my eye on my reading this morning. I'm reading 1 Chronicles. Verse 7 really stuck out to me. The Levites were commandesd to station themselves around the king with their weapons. But it it was the last sentence of the verse that hit me, "Stay close to the king wherever he goes."

It's as if my eyes were opened. When I started meeting with the LORD this morning, I told Him, "Good morning, Father!" And before I knew it out popped what I would normally ask anyone, "How are You?"

I kind of laughed at myself for asking that. I mean God is fine. But it did make me stop and querie: what is on Your heart today?

So with that in mind, "Stay close to the king wherever he goes," got my attention. That's what's on His heart for me - just to stay close to the King. Everything else will fall into place but my objective is to stay close to the LORD Jesus.

Yesterday the remembrance meeting was great. One man spoke of how in the Scriptures the Lord is recordes 9 tines saying, "This is My Son, Whom I love..." God the Father wants us to see that. The Father's attention, focus, love is all on His Son.

But then it reminded me of 2 vereses: John 15:9, "As the Father has loved Me, so have I loved You," and John 17, the last part of 23 "...have loved them as You have loved Me."

His love is unending and so rich and so full... How can I not want to stay close to the King.

Father, help me as the Levites of old, to stay near the King.