She asked my opinion on a difficult subject.
In her zeal and hunger for the Lord, her mind wanted to somehow fathom how He can be who He is and how He can do what He does.
As I read her text I tried to think through a response that would prove WHO God is and HOW He holds all things together.
I am not sure that a response like that even exists.
No person can grasp the HOW of God.
How He creates something from nothing.
How death answers to Him.
How He can know every single person that has ever lived and those yet to live.
How He names the stars and still bends low to listen to my voice.
How suffering works a glorious purpose.
How a virgin can give birth.
How water can be turned to wine.
How sinners can be clothed with grace and made new.
These statements don't even begin to scratch the surface of our how questions.
The How's of God are endless.
We will wear ourselves out worrying over questions that are already handled.
The How of God isn't our concern.
He invites us, instead, to WHO He is.
This answer would seem to be simple and concise, yet it isn't.
The answer to the WHO of God is like a gift each morning...sitting there waiting to be unwrapped.
The recipient of that gift gets to be delighted and surprised by a God that dares to rock our worlds and meet us with the grace to ground our feet.
He is the answer to our deepest longing.
He is the mystery novel we cannot figure out AND we cannot put down.
He is the drink of water that seems to refill itself and quench our most parched places.
He can be seen in the written words of scriptures as well as the a sunset that won't let us look away.
He stands guard and never sleeps.
He will right every wrong.
He is light and no darkness dwells in Him at all.
He is intimate with our secrets and yet the vastness of the universe is under His feet.
He was faithful.
He is presently faithful.
He will always be faithful.
I have several obstacles staring me in the face that taunt me with their size and immovability.
Fear wonders how.
Faith believes who.
The choice is mine.
If you find yourself fretting....check your choice.
God invites us into His divine space.
The place where our yoke is easy and our burden is light.
Have you ever been under extreme anxiety, heartache or stress and wondered how our burden can be light?
Because our only responsibility is to know God.
And He desires to be known.
Win/Win
Knowing Jesus Christ gives us everything we need to face the unknown that lies ahead.
(Revelation 21:3 NIV) And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Now the dwelling of God is with men, and he will live with them. They will be his people, and God himself will be with them and be their God.
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