Heavenly Father, I praise You for knowing me before I was made, when I was made, and before I came to know You. I praise You for caring enough for me to send Christ into our world through childbirth, reared by human parents, and then faced death for my sins along with every other person who lives. Help me to be honoring today by taking command of my day, my tongue, and my thoughts and shaking all evil out of them.
But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. [ Romans 5:8 MEV] God’s timing is so very different from ours because He exists both in and out of time. Hard for me to grasp on most days, but so is much about God. It is one reason I have great respect for Solomon, the wisest man to walk the earth, who told us the beginning of wisdom was to fear the Lord. I truly believe that means a healthy respect for what I can not conceive or understand fully, with the limitations of my mind and the constraints of time, and only the physical world viewable by my eyes. I long for the day that I could see as
Elisha and see the army of the Lord encamped around me, but then I would also see the enemy and his charges lurking around me also. It has been said that a day in eternity is like a thousand years in our concept of time. That we are but a vapor to existence. Yet God knows us so intimately that he can tell us how many hairs are on our heads. What our thoughts are, desires are, what our soul yearns for. Christ loved me even before I accepted Him into my life and believed He is and always will be my Savior, friend, King, and so much more. God’s timing is so much more on a cosmic level than I would, will, or could ever fully conceive while here on the earth. When I reach eternity and have a perfect body and I am fully engulfed in His presence, maybe I will see and understand better. For now, like most of my faith, I will trust in the Lord and not depend on what I understand or know. Isaiah said it best: You will keep in perfect peace him whose mind is steadfast, because he trusts in You. 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 26:3; Isaiah 55:8&9] Let me walk in faith, trust in my salvation, fear the Lord, and live my life fully as a living sacrifice for the one who loved me before I turned from sin and sought forgiveness. Jesus, my redeemer, savior, and king, I will always praise and believe beyond my own understanding and stand firm and resolved in my faith, Amen.