What a Mighty God We Serve

I have not been doing to well with spending time with the Lord recently. There is no good excuse... even with three children you can find time if you prioritize. And, I am not talking about making time for a formal quiet time. I just mean talking to Him throughout the day. I am usually good about calling out to God when I am not having a good day with the kids but even then I sometimes turn to myself instead of Him. Anxiety about our impending move or starting 4K with Joshua this fall or Joshua's headaches or Sophia's disobedience... I just internalize it in anguish sometimes instead of giving it over to Him. What am I thinking? Little me... BIG Him. You would think it would be a given who would be the more appropriate one to handle these situations. We are such independent beings. Many people always say "The Lord won't give you anything you can't handle". I think that is untrue. The Lord will give you plenty of things you can't handle alone... but WITH him you can do all things (Philippians 4:13).

We had a sermon this past week at church about God's characteristic of being omniscient, or all knowing. It is one of those concepts that, if pondered over long enough, will place you in the corner sucking your thumb - as our teaching pastor put it this past Sunday. As much as it makes my head hurt to think about it, it is that much more comforting to know that the God of the universe knows everything that has been, that is and that will be. If sinful me can't be in control - which really is a blessing in disguise, isn't it? - it is good to know that a perfect God is!

Psalm 139 (from biblegateway.com)

For the director of music. Of David. A psalm.

1 O LORD, you have searched me
and you know me.

2 You know when I sit and when I rise;
you perceive my thoughts from afar.

3 You discern my going out and my lying down;
you are familiar with all my ways.

4 Before a word is on my tongue
you know it completely, O LORD.

5 You hem me in—behind and before;
you have laid your hand upon me.

6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me,
too lofty for me to attain.

7 Where can I go from your Spirit?
Where can I flee from your presence?

8 If I go up to the heavens, you are there;
if I make my bed in the depths, ^[a] you are there.

9 If I rise on the wings of the dawn,
if I settle on the far side of the sea,

10 even there your hand will guide me,
your right hand will hold me fast.

11 If I say, "Surely the darkness will hide me
and the light become night around me,"

12 even the darkness will not be dark to you;
the night will shine like the day,
for darkness is as light to you.

13 For you created my inmost being;
you knit me together in my mother's womb.

14 I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
your works are wonderful,
I know that full well.

15 My frame was not hidden from you
when I was made in the secret place.
When I was woven together in the depths of the earth,

16 your eyes saw my unformed body.
All the days ordained for me
were written in your book
before one of them came to be.

17 How precious to ^[b] me are your thoughts, O God!
How vast is the sum of them!

18 Were I to count them,
they would outnumber the grains of sand.
When I awake,
I am still with you.

23 Search me, O God, and know my heart;

test me and know my anxious thoughts.

24 See if there is any offensive way in me,
and lead me in the way everlasting.

Isn't this one of the most wonderful truths you have ever heard? The Lord of the universe, our Saviour, is with you always and is delighting and singing over you right now!

Zephaniah 3:17

17 The LORD your God is with you,
he is mighty to save.
He will take great delight in you,
he will quiet you with his love,
he will rejoice over you with singing."