When I look out and really see the creation of God’s hand, I am shamed that I don’t appreciate him as I should. I don’t tell him enough how much I value what he does for me. Oftentimes, I forget to thank him as I really should for answer to prayer. I believe in God’s creation of the universe. I also believe he provides for its sustenance and mine.
I am overwhelmed that he would be so interested in me; my person, one individual among so many. His interest in each one of us is real. It is authentic and so genuine and yet, many times I fail to acknowledge how so.
Even at this juncture of my life, I at times ask myself, “Is he really? Does he really? How can he be so exclusive with me and others and so personal? It’s like a cognitive burst of reality. What, at another stage in life, I thought so important really wasn’t. We work to have and eventually retire to let much of it go.
The prophet Isaiah wrote, “Have you never heard? Have you never understood? The Lord is the everlasting God, the Creator of all the earth. He never grows weak or weary. No one can measure the depths of his understanding.” Isaiah 40:28 How true! I cannot compute the profoundness of God and his understanding.
Isaiah continues, “He gives power to the weak and strength to the powerless. Even youths will become weak and tired, and young men will fall in exhaustion. But those who trust in the Lord will find new strength. They will soar high on wings like eagles. They will run and not grow weary. They will walk and not faint!” Isaiah 40:29-31
It is our limited knowledge that cannot grasp the full characterization of our God. But, I do know this, I must not limit his work in my life by thinking too little of him. Isaiah reminded me again, “’To whom will you compare me? Who is my equal?’ asks the Holy One.” Isaiah 40:25 God has no equal and whether I fully understand all that he is or not; I understand this; he is real in my life.
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