Ps 13
5 But I trust in your unfailing love;
my heart rejoices in your salvation.
6 I will sing the Lord’s praise,
for he has been good to me.
I love those words! I love Jobs' words: though He Slay me yet I will trust Him. He sure put a lot of strain on Job. I have never suffered like Job. I am in the “abound” part of Paul’s experience of the goodness of God. I plead for His grace to be able to take the abase part without failure! I always want to say no matter what He does with me, I will trust Him like Job, He is so good! I certainly don’t know myself…except to believe in my weakness!
It’s a very unequal relationship: He is God and we are made by Him. There is hiddenness and unknowability about Him. What He has decided to show us of Himself is a lot too. I read in the scriptures but also know directly how overwhelming His love is, how kind He is, how good, how merciful He is, how Holy He is, how powerful and full of glory He is….and it seems an infinite list of superlatives! He is humble: He can put aside His majesty and greatness to love you and I. The pleasure is great!
Grace is grace and there is nothing we can do to make ourselves merit anything from Him yet somehow it seems to be true as we desire Him, it’s Him that gives Himself (if you draw close to me, I will draw close to you). That idea ruins the idea of anything else except being close to Him. He is worth my whole self, devotion and love of Him. I want to point my heart to Him, to be consumed in His love and never be apart from a consciousness of Him. I don’t want to offend the loved One in the least! This is an aspirational “want to”, ………there is a lot lacking in me, that He will change thankfully!
Majestic Humble King You are very loved by us, your children!
5 But I trust in your unfailing love;
my heart rejoices in your salvation.
6 I will sing the Lord’s praise,
for he has been good to me.
I love those words! I love Jobs' words: though He Slay me yet I will trust Him. He sure put a lot of strain on Job. I have never suffered like Job. I am in the “abound” part of Paul’s experience of the goodness of God. I plead for His grace to be able to take the abase part without failure! I always want to say no matter what He does with me, I will trust Him like Job, He is so good! I certainly don’t know myself…except to believe in my weakness!
It’s a very unequal relationship: He is God and we are made by Him. There is hiddenness and unknowability about Him. What He has decided to show us of Himself is a lot too. I read in the scriptures but also know directly how overwhelming His love is, how kind He is, how good, how merciful He is, how Holy He is, how powerful and full of glory He is….and it seems an infinite list of superlatives! He is humble: He can put aside His majesty and greatness to love you and I. The pleasure is great!
Grace is grace and there is nothing we can do to make ourselves merit anything from Him yet somehow it seems to be true as we desire Him, it’s Him that gives Himself (if you draw close to me, I will draw close to you). That idea ruins the idea of anything else except being close to Him. He is worth my whole self, devotion and love of Him. I want to point my heart to Him, to be consumed in His love and never be apart from a consciousness of Him. I don’t want to offend the loved One in the least! This is an aspirational “want to”, ………there is a lot lacking in me, that He will change thankfully!
Majestic Humble King You are very loved by us, your children!
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