The Lord is awe-inspiring, fascinating, intriguing, majestic, and full of splendor: breathtaking! Here is what I saw of him in Psalm 71:6,
“From birth I have relied on you; you brought me forth from my mother's womb. I will ever praise you.”
The psalmist here points to something many of us often forget. It is because of God that we have life! He brought each and every human being into existence. Without God none of us would exist. Because of God’s miracle of life we enjoy all of the opportunities life has to offer. He has provided us with faculties that reflect his own personality: the ability to think, to feel, a will we are free to exercise! We have bodies that provide us opportunity to relate to the rest of God’s creation and one another. In addition he has provided all of us the opportunity for our lives to have purpose and meaning, the potential for a rich life well-lived.
While many of us worship God for such, there are many others who fail to find cause for worship of God. Disenchantment with life is often laid at the feet of God as if he were responsible for the disappointments in life, for life not to be meaningful and fulfilling. It is often thought that if God is the cause of life then it is God who is responsible for the difficulties and disappointments. But the disappointments in life are to be laid at the feet of mankind himself. Even provided fair warning ahead of time by God himself, given the opportunity to live life in a pristine existence without the hardship and difficulties life now has, man traded it all for what we experience in life today. Disappointments, failure, sickness, infirmities and death are all now a part of life, the result of man’s rejection of God and willingness to follow the Serpent in the Garden of Eden.
In God’s great mercy and love he has not left us to our own destruction. In addition to bringing each of us from our mother’s wombs he has provided us opportunity for second birth, to be born into his family. Each of us, if we but just take the reverse course that Adam did and embrace God as Adam should have, can become a child of God, a co-heir with Jesus Christ! In addition to a fulfilling life here lived with purpose and meaning, he provides us an eternity with him in an environment of his original intent! What a wonderful love our Creator has for mankind!
Anything of the Lord capture your heart from Scripture today? Share your thoughts of worship with us from your Bible reading today. We’d love to hear from you!
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