Today I start year 64. As I type this, Someone keeps my heart beating and keeps my lungs breathing. I give no conscious command to make these things happen….to keep them at the proper cadence. It was not my idea to be born. I provided no input into being born in Texas. (My fellow Texans would say, “Thank God for that!”)
Lately I have been praying a different prayer. As I go to bed I ask God to reveal something to me about Him. The bible says He gives to His beloved even while His beloved sleeps.
He and His ways are incomprehensible but there is much He has revealed about Himself. He is the great artist. A new color pattern for each sunset…He created gazelles, ladybugs, hippopotamuses, anteaters, eagles, mosquitoes, and ……. He has given great athletes speed and agility. A lightening storm can be quite spectacular…another one of His artistic creations. And… there is the quiet peace of a glassy lake in the morning. Every day there is a new look. It is perpetually around us.
Does He want to be known? I think so. He said let the one who boasts boast that he understands and knows Him Who exercises lovingkindness, justice and righteousness because He delights in these things. Surely He knows He is incomprehensible to us. Surely He knows we can’t fathom how He holds the galaxies together, listens to our prayers, creates all of these animals and bugs, keeps track of the hairs on my head and your head….but never grows weary or tired.
So what do I know about Him? I know one thing He has said….He came for me and He is committed to me. Just typing that makes me uncomfortable.
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