THANKFUL

Chatting with Jesus

Monday, April 24, 2023

Lord, was the psalmist spellbound, gazing into Your glory of a starry night when he penned Psalm 19?  Many things I cannot understand. How You orchestrate everything to keep Your universe functioning is mindboggling. The vastness of our Milky Way with its hundred billion stars is beyond my comprehension, yet scientist estimate Your universe has at least a hundred billion other galaxies. Scripture says You named every star. I cannot fathom that. I would have run out of names after Craig, Bryan, Diana, Janet ….

Something else I cannot fathom: Your love for fallen mankind, and in particular, me. The Apostle Paul strived to comprehend the vastness of Your love. Writing to his Ephesian friends, Paul could only use figurative dimensions of understanding to describe Your love.

“And may you have the power to understand, as all God’s people should, how wide, how long, how high, and how deep His love is. May you experience the love of Christ, though it is too great to understand fully,”—Ephesians 3:18,19 (NLT).

These human descriptions can’t scratch the surface of Your love since Your love cannot be measured. Man’s capacity to love has its limit.  Your love and grace, which knows no limits, is far above my paygrade.

Because of their imperfections and consistent sins, many Roman believers—and many believers today—fear God will abandon them. Paul assures us that ain’t gonna happen.

“… nothing can ever separate us from God’s love. Neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God,”—Romans 8:38, 39 (NIV).

Lord, Your love smothers my fear and gives me peace. Amen.