“How precious to me are your thoughts, God! How vast is the sum of them! Were I to count them, they would outnumber the grains of sand— when I awake, I am still with you.” (Psalms 139:17-18)
We must press against, resist and oppose the lies of the enemy and our own delusions from our fallen human nature. In a society of solitary aloneness amidst a bombardment of voices, words, reports, songs, images and visions of entities, love can be obscured at best or worse blotted out and forgotten.
The truth is – God is Love, He draws us and is near, besides our desire for relationship, fellowship and habitation with Him. The psalmist sampled God’s thoughts and they were precious. All God has done reflects love so deep and essential when He humbled himself as a man (Yeshua) and lived among us. He experienced all the pain, injustice, heartache, hardship, temptation, hate and wickedness this world dumps upon us in its effort to kill, steal and destroy us. However, He is God and He overcame it all and delivered truth in a life-giving message of unlimited, unconditional, free gift of Love.
“In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.” (John 1:4-5) The light of love is ours in Yeshua, Messiah. Believers are to be courageous in the Lord. If we need more courage all we need is to ask the Lord our Defense and Victory. (Judges 6:11-16) There is nothing good the Lord will withhold from His Children. (Ps 84:11; Matt. 7:9-11) If the reason we don’t have, is because we have not asked God, then we are most likely trying in our own strength. (James 4:2) We live by faith. In faith we don’t see and rationalize circumstances, but wait on God, whose timing is perfect. Faith is confidence in God, His promises, lovingkindness and compassion, but it is not seeing. Faith brings hope that we will receive all we need and that with God all things will work out.
Charles Spurgeon talked about, “A distinction with a difference”, which sounds at first, redundant. However, if one says “Goodbye” and another says “Good riddance” they belie entirely different sentiments. God sees beyond such distinctions to the heart’s content. Spurgeon consider’s the differences in Luke 1:18 and 1:34. Father God knows us more intimately than we know ourselves and loves us unconditionally. Is there a better reason to believe and rest in His every word without reservation?
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