Let there be Light

I fancied that the Lord worked on models of all his creations.  Making sure all the flagella would work properly, and the tendons and nerves would go through the foramen and fissures.  In my mind He did this just for fun, because His first prototype was always perfect.  I am not very creative like that, I guess in my fancy (and in reality) the Lord is more than I am and all I am incapable of.

AW Tozer believes He spoke it all into being.  So His canvas was in His great mind.  His models moved at the speed of thought - God's thoughts.  When He said, "Let us make men in our own image," in the time it took to think it He had fashioned the nervous system that we are still trying to figure out.  He had worked out how potassium would move in and out of the cells, how ATP would be made, what elements would be in the human form, the immune system, the simple wonder of DNA.  Astounding, don't you think?

It gets better, He only said it once: "Let there be lights in the sky to separate day from night," and there were the sun, moon and stars.  Each with their individual properties, their secrets and mystique.  Each with their cycles for as long as He decides then their deaths.  When lesser gods speak again and again to keep things moving, the Almighty spoke once and when He speaks to the lights in the sky again it is to stop the sun, or to blot is out, it is to cast the stars to the earth.  He only speaks to change it, because the Word He spoke initially is so mighty, so eternal.

So He said, "The LORD is a compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger and rich in love and truth, maintaining faithful love to a thousand generations, forgiving wrongdoing, rebellion and sin" (Exod 4: 6-7).  He said, "[I have] plans for your welfare, not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope" (Jer 29: 11).  He who said this is faithful, He is Truth and He is Love, and He knows that you are weak and wretched.  That you are dust, doomed to fail.  But He said it all (and more) anyway.  Whenever you doubt Him, when fear overtakes you, think on these things and as long as the sun rises, the moon and stars shine, as long as day gives way to night, be encouraged - His Word is still in effect.  And by extension His love for you.

When all alone...

You know how they say "you are who you are when no one is around"?  Well I know, and they do say that.  I am a disappointment most of the time.  Just thought to share that.

Get up and go to my Father

I know the Lord is nothing like me.  He goes so far as to say "For My thoughts [are] not your thoughts, Nor [are] your ways My ways," says the LORD. For [as] the heavens are higher than the earth, So are My ways higher than your ways, And My thoughts than your thoughts." (Isaiah 55: 8-9).  There is no 'spot' at which the Earth ends.  One can argue the earth of the Earth, highest at Everest and so forth giving us a range.  But the 'Earth's atmosphere' is part of the Earth is it not? And it is a continuous part.  As spacecraft leave here they go through places where the atmosphere is present and gradually end up where there is no atmosphere.  How would we measure that?  Best guess would be from the place (already above the Earth) where we are sure there is no atmosphere, not wholly accurate but it will do.
Where do 'the heavens' start?  Where are 'the heavens' I often ask?  I will not venture into that one.  Have our space craft and probes made it into the heavens yet?  If they have then the Lord's statement is less lofty than it sounds and we have surpassed God's ideas by our amazing resourcefulness.  Ludicrous!!


I am repeatedly bad and disobedient.  I should get my family back into the Word, I keep putting it off and/or waiting for a spare moment and in reality there are none.  When we did it, I do not think I know how/when we did because I was busier then than I am now.  My lack of daily spiritual feeding has made me so weak I do not resist temptation.  I go at the mere suggestion of one thing or the other, it's a pathetic sight.  Yet in light of all this, I have job requests out there, I have a significant interview and a few other things for which I desperately need the Lord's favour.  If some of these things (the interview in particular) have a 'bad' outcome then we are adding hurt to our current condition. 


The Lord's Grace surpasses all my wickedness, in fact all the World's wickedness.  Just the bits I know and am party to are really really wicked, and then there are the rest, the things that I find revoltingly bad.  His Grace is sufficient for all those too!  And His Word says all His thoughts towards me are good and not evil (Jeremiah 29:11).  That makes me concurrently grateful and ashamed.  I was told to put my Hope in God, not a pay raise, new car etc.  I do not know if that translates into an action.  The morale of this story is this; do not run from His Love, it cannot be done. 


" I will arise and go to my father, and will say to him, “Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you, and I am no longer worthy to be called your son. Make me like one of your hired servants [for I am not worthy to be called by your name].”’
“And he arose and came to his father. But when he was still a great way off, his father saw him and had compassion, and ran and fell on his neck and kissed him. And the son said to him, ‘Father, I have sinned against heaven and in your sight, and am no longer worthy to be called your son.’ 
“But the father [said, "Nonsense my boy! and] said to his servants, ‘Bring out the best robe and put it on him, and put a ring on his hand and sandals on his feet. And bring the fatted calf here and kill it, and let us eat and be merry; for this my son was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found.’ And they began to be merry." (Luke 15:18-24). 


That is what I will do.