Good morning!
When I stop and really just take time to ponder our God and His creation, I can become overwhelmed. These verses provide the backdrop for some of the breathtaking understanding God provides us in His word about His immensity and awesomeness.
We often wait for Easter or Lent to reflect on the immensity and the gravity of what Jesus did for us on the Cross, the depth and breadth, the enormity of the sacrifice God provided for us, to provide us a way to salvation through our Savior Jesus Christ.
However, beyond the accounts of Jesus, His death and resurrection, the verses above give us a clear look into God's mighty work and creation as well and point us to Him.
It is times like this, that spending time reflecting on the immensity of God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit can be a fruitful exercise. Because we forget, we forget His thoughts are higher and greater than our thoughts, that His plan, even though we may not fully see it or see it at all, is always the best plan, we forget the depth of His love for us, we forget He wants a restored relationship with us that is rich beyond imagination, we forget as we are sucked into the details of our lives – we forget He is there always wanting us to return to Him, to acknowledge Him, to return His love, to share our lives completely and fully with him.
God’s Word provides us insights into this immensity. I think these verses share with us a little bit of what God wants us to know about Him:
Is that not a God worth reflecting on and more importantly, putting at the center of our lives through Jesus Christ?
Abba Father, my prayer for each of us as we enter the weekend is simply that we stop and take time to reflect on You, Lord God, who You are, how You are most significant, and how vast and deep Your love is for us. I pray this because the most amazing sacrifice ever occurred 2000 years ago and that sacrifice represents our restored relationship with You, our awesome God! Amen!
Have a weekend filled with the Peace that comes from knowing our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ,
Patrick
When I stop and really just take time to ponder our God and His creation, I can become overwhelmed. These verses provide the backdrop for some of the breathtaking understanding God provides us in His word about His immensity and awesomeness.
- John 1:1-5 “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning. Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.”
- Psalm 139:1-6 “ You have searched me, Lord, and you know me. You know when I sit and when I rise; you perceive my thoughts from afar. You discern my going out and my lying down; you are familiar with all my ways. Before a word is on my tongue you, Lord, know it completely. You hem me in behind and before, and you lay your hand upon me. Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too lofty for me to attain.
- Psalm 139:13-18 “For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well. My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place, when I was woven together in the depths of the earth. Your eyes saw my unformed body; all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be. How precious to me are your thoughts, God! How vast is the sum of them! Were I to count them, they would outnumber the grains of sand—when I awake, I am still with you.
We often wait for Easter or Lent to reflect on the immensity and the gravity of what Jesus did for us on the Cross, the depth and breadth, the enormity of the sacrifice God provided for us, to provide us a way to salvation through our Savior Jesus Christ.
However, beyond the accounts of Jesus, His death and resurrection, the verses above give us a clear look into God's mighty work and creation as well and point us to Him.
It is times like this, that spending time reflecting on the immensity of God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit can be a fruitful exercise. Because we forget, we forget His thoughts are higher and greater than our thoughts, that His plan, even though we may not fully see it or see it at all, is always the best plan, we forget the depth of His love for us, we forget He wants a restored relationship with us that is rich beyond imagination, we forget as we are sucked into the details of our lives – we forget He is there always wanting us to return to Him, to acknowledge Him, to return His love, to share our lives completely and fully with him.
God’s Word provides us insights into this immensity. I think these verses share with us a little bit of what God wants us to know about Him:
- Through Him (our triune God all things were made – everything! John shares further just to be clear – “without Him nothing was made that has been made”. Nothing is outside the hand of God…
- In God is life – us, living, breathing, created by Him – and –
- That life He created, meaning us, that life was and is meant to be the light of all mankind – He wants us to reflect Him and we have been given a second chance (third, fourth, fifth…) through Jesus Christ to have our light restored.
- Our light (our restoration) is meant to shine in the darkness and God promises the darkness will not overcome our light – once restored, our light will shine
- The Psalms here reiterate how much God knows us – we forget He created us – He knows us – the writer, likely David, is amazed as this represents the vastness of our God, His reach and the reach of His love for us -
- Knows when we sit and when we rise
- Knows our thoughts
- Knows our ways
- Knows our speech before it happens
- He created us – our inner most being
- Knit us together in the womb
- Made us fearfully and wonderfully
- Wove us together
- Ordained our days in His book
- David shares one final thought about the immensity of our God – speaking about the preciousness of God’s thoughts he ponders the vastness of those thoughts and says they would outnumber the grains of sand…
Is that not a God worth reflecting on and more importantly, putting at the center of our lives through Jesus Christ?
Abba Father, my prayer for each of us as we enter the weekend is simply that we stop and take time to reflect on You, Lord God, who You are, how You are most significant, and how vast and deep Your love is for us. I pray this because the most amazing sacrifice ever occurred 2000 years ago and that sacrifice represents our restored relationship with You, our awesome God! Amen!
Have a weekend filled with the Peace that comes from knowing our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ,
Patrick
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