I was talking with a dear friend today. The topic came up of all the insecurities we face in our jobs, families, and world. He made the comment, "Sometimes you just wanna ask, 'Hey, God are you paying attention?'" I don't fault him for saying this as I know he just verballized what we all feel from time to time. I reminded him of a truth he already knows. I told him that actually it gives me great peace knowing that God is paying attention and that he is in control. So, if you find yourself experiencing the same senitment today (which you share with the Psalmist-- a man after God's own heart) listen to the following words:
The greatest act of faith is when man decides he is not God.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes
Faith doesn't make anything happen - faith rests on something that has happened!
-- Malcolm Smith
God is God
And the pain falls like a curtain on the things I once called certain. And I have to say the words I fear the most, "I just don’t know."
And the questions without answers come and paralyze the dancer. So, I stand here on the stage afraid to move, afraid to fall. Oh, but fall I must on this truth that my life has been formed from the dust.
God is God and I am not. I can only see a part of the picture He’s painting. God is God and I am man. So I’ll never understand it all for only God is God.
And the sky begins to thunder, and I’m filled with awe and wonder. ‘Til the only burning question that remains is, "Who am I?"
Can I form a single mountain? Take the stars in hand and count them? Can I even take a breath without God giving it to me? He is first and last before all that has been, beyond all that will pass.
Oh, how great are the riches of His wisdom and knowledge? How unsearchable? For to Him and through Him and from Him are all things. So, let us worship before the throne of the One who is worthy of worship alone!
Written by Steven Curtis Chapman ©2001
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great post, thanks.
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