Sesame Street was one of the fondest memories I can remember watching and learning from my childhood. I learned so much. I remember how we had a divider in our home. It divided the living room from our dining room. I would jump on the table, over the couches and over the divider all while singing got to get to sesame street. I had made my own imaginary sesame street. Each week we would get a new word that was on the street. Many are in these dating streets and are listening for a word but are just like I was living in an imaginary place. Some are jumping from one relationship after another not allowing the word to divide between their soul and spirit to bring them to their desired street. They won’t wait on God to renew their strength and give them a word. That word is: Grow.
It’s time to grow. Some have stopped growing. Some have given up on love. Some are playing in these dating streets and getting hurt, disappointed, bitter and frustrated. God knows how to connect the dots and put the missing puzzle pieces together because he promised to lead us in paths of righteousness for His name’s sake (psalm 23). Some have let go of mercy and truth’s hands in their relationships. He has given us the strategies in his word and how to order you and your partner’s steps to cause you to meet.
Well just like children as we grow, we must realize we don’t stop growing because we grow up naturally. Michelle Obama said in her book, Becoming, “That this is one of the most useless questions an adult could ask a child. What do you want to be when you grow up? As if growing up is finite. As if at some point you become something and that’s the end.”
I imagine in my own personal life how my purpose partner and my life will come together before the throne, and it is found in part in these scriptures.
In Psalm 85: 10 Mercy and truth are met together; righteousness and peace have kissed each other. 11 Truth shall spring out of the earth; and righteousness shall look down from heaven. 12 Yea, the LORD shall give that which is good; and our land shall yield her increase. 13 Righteousness shall go before him; and shall set us in the way of his steps.
In the inner beauty of the design of who God created us to be, we have never let go of mercy and truth’s hand. We will always bring them together in our lives, so they never let go of each other. Just like we will do with each other, and when we do, know that righteousness and peace are able to kiss each other in our lives.
We will understand that they need to be together, just like we do. I believe when people have a foundation established in mercy and truth in their individual lives, it gets the attention of heaven. It causes righteousness and peace to come together before the throne and kiss. Do you know how to get heaven’s attention to cause God to order your steps and bring you and your purpose partner together? We made righteousness look over the balcony of heaven, to see who was able to make them hold a kiss for so long?
See this is a kiss that will never end because you have degreed that our standard will be mercy and truth. They will be bound about our necks as ornaments and a plow in our hands. They will be the secret to our kiss as well of the story we will tell. This is the place we will forever live tucked safely in our minds between righteousness and peace. They are our keys to the kingdom for us to overcome.
Righteousness has released Gods orders in our lives for the earth to yield her goodness and increase causing righteousness to become our guide and set us in the way of his steps. He promised that the steps of a righteous man are ordered of the Lord. This is how we will meet, and this is how God will cause others to meet their purpose partners.
There have been very painful situations in my life and the only way I was not destroyed by the enemy was to not let go of mercy and truth’s hand. I had to continue to grow so God could give me the favor I needed to overcome. So, as you are out here in these dating streets remember to not let bitterness, disappointment and heartbreak cause you to give up and stop you from operating in mercy and truth. Get on God’s Street called grow so you can get the attention of heaven and release that which is good into your lives.
Psalms 84:11 For the LORD God is a sun and shield: The LORD will give grace and glory: No good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.