“How long must I wrestle with my
thoughts and day after day have sorrow in my heart? How long will my enemy
triumph over me? Look on me and answer, LORD my God. Give light to my eyes, or
I will sleep in death, and my enemy will say, ‘I have overcome him,’ and my
foes will rejoice when I fall. But I trust in Your unfailing love; my heart
rejoices in Your salvation.” (Psalm 13:2-5
NIV)
Every time a believer struggles with
sorrow or loneliness or ill health or pain and chooses to trust and serve God
anyhow, a bell rings out across heaven and the angels give a great shout. Why?
Because one more pilgrim has shown again that he or she understands that Jesus
is worth it all. God is faithful.
-- Philip Yancey in “Disappointment with God”
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Showing posts with label God's worthiness. Show all posts
Showing posts with label God's worthiness. Show all posts
Monday, November 18, 2019
Friday, April 27, 2018
THE MESSAGE OF GOD’S GRANDEUR
“For
the Lord is the great God, and the great King above all gods. In His hand are
the deep places of the earth; the heights of the hills are His also. The sea is
His, for He made it; and His hands formed the dry land. Oh come, let us worship
and bow down; let us kneel before the Lord our Maker. For He is our God, and we
are the people of His pasture, and the sheep of His hand.” (Psalm 95:3-7 NKJV)
Psalms presents a world that fits together as a whole, with everything upheld by a personal God watching over it.
This message, above all, leaped out at me during my frustrating attempts to read the Psalms in Colorado. I could not fit together all the contradictory messages I was reading, but the magnificent wilderness setting at least affirmed the message of God's grandeur, His worthiness. Wilderness brings us down a level, reminding us of something we'd prefer to forget: our creatureliness. It announces to our senses the splendor of an invisible, untamable God. How could I not offer praise to the One who dreamed up porcupines and elk, who splashed bright green aspen trees across hillsides of gray rock, who transforms the same landscape into a new work of art with every blizzard?
-- Philip Yancey in “The Bible Jesus Read”
Psalms presents a world that fits together as a whole, with everything upheld by a personal God watching over it.
This message, above all, leaped out at me during my frustrating attempts to read the Psalms in Colorado. I could not fit together all the contradictory messages I was reading, but the magnificent wilderness setting at least affirmed the message of God's grandeur, His worthiness. Wilderness brings us down a level, reminding us of something we'd prefer to forget: our creatureliness. It announces to our senses the splendor of an invisible, untamable God. How could I not offer praise to the One who dreamed up porcupines and elk, who splashed bright green aspen trees across hillsides of gray rock, who transforms the same landscape into a new work of art with every blizzard?
-- Philip Yancey in “The Bible Jesus Read”
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