Have you ever spent time observing; Looking out far and wide across this wondrous creation?
Have you ever taken a casual glance at some far off vista, and then spent the next ten minutes watching in rapt wonder?
Is it even possible to comprehend this world, so vast and mysterious?
Did you ever attempt to find your own place amidst such a great and far flung universe? Was it just an accident that you arrived here in this place, in this time? Or, is there something much deeper at work?
Your life is truly a gift of incalculable worth. What a wonder it is that you can see and know, and give and love
Even as all of creation, in it’s timeless way, somehow exists, you are precious in the eyes of God
What He has formed in you, He lovingly treasures. God has a desire for your life that is not bound by the span of time, or by the breadth of all that He has made
And His desire is for your good, so that the joy of life would fill you to overflowing
How sad it is then, that God has often been obscured . That in these times times, He is discounted and discredited. So that we, who need to be connected with our creator, are wilting from a lack of His presence in our lives
We face the starvation of our very souls, because our lives are desperately dependent upon His Spirit
God calls us to live a holy life. To flee from the sin and evil, that so easily afflicts us. For it places a drag on our lives that separates us from Him and leads us to empty places, even despair
He places great importance on this, because it becomes a matter of life and death for those He loves.
God is angered and saddened by all those who do evil, and all those who are compelled to continually sin against Him. By their own actions, they prove that they do not know or regard Him in any way.
How misguided are we, yet God continues to call out to us through His love and through His Word, so that we might come to realize the error of our ways, and then turn, and be forgiven.
It is incredible how blind we can truly be. That we cannot take the time to look and wonder, or acknowledge the great love of God, our creator
But for those who conduct their lives in self control; who place their faith in the God of the universe, and live their lives before Him; These will be blessed, because God’s only intentions are for our good
To all those who love our God, who follow after His ways, these will dwell close to His presence and be fed. Their lives will be blessed through understanding.
The full measure of His loving kindness will overflow upon them in the richness of all that is good and true; and they will live safely in His presence for all of time. 11/10/2006