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  Psalm 91:1(ESV) 1 - He who dwells in the shelter of the most high will abide in the shadow of the Almighty. As I read this I thought of my roommate. Before we started living together my knowledge of her was just enough for me to decide to live with her. But after she moved in my knowledge of her grew rapidly. Her moving in made it possibly for us to constantly be in each others presence, which led us to discovering different parts of ourselves that we could have only known with being in each others presence. And so when I think of dwelling in the shelter of the most high, I think of it like that of my roommate. For me to grow in my knowledge of God. for me to know how to better communicate with God, for me to get closer to God, for me to think, be, act, and love like God, I have to know him and that depth of knowledge of him can only come with me constantly dwelling in his presence. In this psalm David goes on to boast about what he can now say of God after dwelling in his shelte...

Ephesians 4:2 - "With all lowliness and gentleness, with long-suffering, bearing with one another in love"     Here Paul talks about some of the qualities we should possess when walking the call of God on our life, that is to love him and endeavor to be like him, living a life that exhibits godly character. We are to do this with complete lowliness (complete humility), gentleness (maintaining self-control), long-suffering (patiently enduring anything) and bearing with each other in love.     But just in this past week, I have  fallen short of those three qualities. I have given pride a chance in my heart, exhibited no iota of humility, lacked self-control and any form of endurance, allowing my emotions to wander around leading me to ungodly thoughts and conclusion but GOD! in his loving kindness and abundant mercy led me to his shelter, revealing all those ungodly characters in my heart and then offering me r...