What's Your Preference?

O LORD, you are my God; I will exalt you and praise your name, for in perfect faithfulness you have done marvelous things, things planned long ago.”-
Isaiah 25:1

Every Believer has reason to lift up the name of the Lord. God has done many things in our lives that give us cause to exalt Him. When I looked up the word exalt in the thesaurus it gave me a number of alternative words that I might have come up with on my own such as; Adore, Brag about, Celebrate, Glorify, Reverence, Honor and Magnify, but there was one word that I would never have thought and it gave me a new perspective on what my relationship with God should be about and that word is Prefer. Wow!!! How many of us can really say that we Prefer God? That we prefer Him over our families, friends, jobs, and our “fun”? If we are completely honest with ourselves we have to admit that our actions don’t always say that God is our preference.

The Lord should be our preference if only because of his perfect faithfulness and faultless commitment to us, which is the basis for every excellent thing he does in our lives. Whether material, physical or spiritual, it is all a direct result of God’s faithfulness to us.

And whether it seems to take a long time for those excellent things to be realized in our lives or whether they appear to come quickly – there is joy is in knowing that God planned them long ago.

Nothing the Lord does in our lives comes from a last minute thought. He didn’t just think it up the moment that we got it; He didn’t even come up with it once we knew we were in need of it and prayed. No, The Lord in his infinite wisdom and perfect faithfulness to us had plans of blessing us with marvelous things not only long ago, but long before we were, and because of that I Prefer Him!

What's Your Preference?