Thoughts for another day

July 7, 2008

Today's verse: Mt. 15:13. But he answered and said, Every plant, which my heavenly Father hath not planted, shall be rooted up. (KJV)
(Pls. read the above before you read further. Thanks)

Without the consent of God, there can hardly be anything that can be; not even a grain of sand can move when faced with the strongest tornado or the mightiest wave. Beloved, such is the awesome might of the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob.

He walks upon the circle of the earth and summons the winds and they are at attention. The mountains quiver with awe at His bidding and He holds the lightning and sends it in the direction, He has carved for it. The broad folds of the clouds, He sews up to hold the rain, and when He ‘unsews’ them, the rain erupts in a spray, its path guided by His dictat. Huge trees pay obeisance to Him as they sway in the swarming breeze for they know who their ‘Master’ is. All earth knows the awesomeness of the God of Israel, whose hand spans the universe and by whose tremendous brilliance is sustained the lives of trillions of organisms that He creates or destroys by His own will.

Lest you forget, He is the same God who is our Father. He is the One Whom we worship and hold close in our hearts. He is the One who charts the course our lives and He is the One who controls the strands of time that constitute our lives in this world. All things we do have to be guided by His awesome power and without His permission, nothing can be, that can be.

It’s important that we accommodate God in all that we plan because without God our plans cannot materialize and we may plant but unless he wills, our plants will be uprooted and thrown away. I pray that we appropriate the awesomeness of God in our lives, even as we make plans for ourselves with His blessings, so that whatever we do will gain permanency and our edifice will withstand the rigors of the evil one.