Psalm 33-36 More God Than We Know

“God’s word is true, and everything He does is right … the Lord’s love fills the earth…”

“He spoke, and it happened.  He commanded, and it appeared.”

“The Lord looks down from heaven and sees every person … He made their hearts and understands everything they do.”

We have to believe these things.  Otherwise we will get a wrong view of God.  If we believe that His word contains errors, then Satan will lead us to feel that we are the exception and that His word doesn’t apply to our situation.

If we fail to believe that everything He does is right, then we leave open the possibility that God can mess up.  That would imply that He’s not perfect.

Unless we understand that God is motivated by His love for us, we will assign wrong motives to Him and doubt His goodness.

We must believe that God is all-powerful and that He created everything we know from nothing.  Otherwise we may be tempted to think that His will can be defeated.

If we fall for the lie that God is God only from a distance, and that He’s left it all up to us to make it work, we will miss out on the myriad ways He arranges our circumstances to grow us in Him.  We’ll cease to believe He loves us and know Him only as Creator and not as Savior.

And if we fail to take to heart the truth the He made our hearts and understands everything we do, we will see His commands as arbitrary, designed solely to inflict misery on us.  We’ll miss out on the fact that He loves us enough not to leave us the way we are.  We won’t understand that temptations we are susceptible to cause us to build our trust in Him when we steer away from them, and though our failures hurt and disappoint Him, He knows that we are dust, and He loves us anyway.

Father, You are so much more than we can fathom.  You are more active in our lives that we could ever perceive, and Your love for us is more than amazing.  Thank You for being so personally involved in my life!

Your Brother In Christ,

Gary Ford