Good morning America!
I hope everything I do honors God so I want to make it traditional that I leave a scripture on this world wide web each day.
Years ago, my grandmother told me how she read 1 Proverb and 5 Psalms every day. This way she read the Psalms and the Proverbs through each month, 12 times a year. Can you imagine?
After she told me that I began to mark my Bible with days of the month in the Psalms. The Proverbs just coincides with each day of the month. I don't always only do 5 Pslams a day because Psalm 119 is so long I divided up the rest of them. The 28th day marked in my Bible consists of Psalm 138-140.
Psalm 139 is probably one of my favorite passages in all of the Bible. I especially love verses 14-24, with 14 being my favorite. "I will praise thee: for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works: and that my soul knoweth right well."
This tells me that I am made by God's own hand. My parents had so little to do with it. I believe with all of my heart not a soul, not a conception, not a birth comes about without God's purposefulness knitting every cell with the next to bring it about. Man may be able to poke a sperm into an egg and a percentage of the time it works to bring about new life. That percentage is ordained by God's own hand every single time.
This also tells me that He doesn't make garbage, mistakes, oops or anything else. A pregnancy is never a surprise to Him, not even in the worst circumstances. What He makes is marvellous in every aspect and just the way He intended.
We think of children with disabilities. I believe God uses chromozones, genes, DNA, etc. for His purposes. We may have named these parts of the human body but God actually spoke them into existence. He uses them for His purposes. It is such a wonderful thing to know I have eye color, hair color, a pointy nose just the way God molded me.
Verse 16 goes on to say, "Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them." God knew His plan and purpose for me before I was, "a twinkle in my daddy's eye" (quote-my dad used to say).
He knows his purpose for every one of his creations. Of all the plants, planets, stars, animals, etc. that God fashioned and spoke into being we are His most prized possession. He gave special care to the humans, planned their existence from the foundation of the world, because His plan includes having a relationship with them.
Moriah recently got a doll for her birthday. It is a very nice doll, it was very expensive. Someone very special gave it to her. She purposes to get done with school and take Felicity for a walk. Or get Felicity and dress her in different clothes and pretend with her. She seeks her out to have a relationship with her. She desires to spend time with the doll. She loves that doll. We say things like that but what exactly does that mean? Can we love something that doesn't breathe, walk, talk, have a brain, etc? We all know the answer is, "Yes!"
God loves us. We are not the same kind of being as He is. We are not fully spirit. We do not have the same capacities as God. But that does not stop Him from desiring to have a relationship with us. I guess, the thing that is different is that He most wants us to want to have a relationship with Him as well. Moriah's doll doesn't have the opportunity to make a choice. God wants us to choose Him but doesn't demand that. He didn't make dolls, or robots. He made humans with the capacity to choose. We can seek Him to develop a relationship with Him or we can choose to refuse. He doesn't want inanimate objects. That is not what He created. His works are marvellous and part of the marvel is our ability to choose.
Have you chosen today? Have you sought after God. Have you decided it is important for you to have a relationship with God?
God is holy. Being holy means He cannot embrace, hold, love outside of holiness. He desires to have a relationship with us but our sin, the sin passed to every generation from Adam, prevents that 100% holy relationship. That's why God's plan included Jesus Christ. He is the bridge, pathway, covering (so to speak). Because Jesus became sin for us and that sin was sacrificed on the cross, that sin (and all of the sins of the world) is now covered, paid for. So the path to a holy, complete relationship with God almighty has been established. All we have to do is ask for the relationship.
Luke 11:13 says, "If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children: how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him?" It's the asking. God didn't create dolls, to be picked up at will and played with and then put back when He has other things to do. He created us with a will-we can choose to develop a relationship with Him or refuse.
He is WOW! Everyday, something new is WOW about God! Have you had you WOW! today?