He is God!

Psalm 38-39

So many things have been spinning through my mind lately.  I have not been questioning why things happen the way they do, but more so trying to find out what God is trying to show me through everything.  Just wondering why can’t everyone just get along?  Why do some people have to be so difficult?  Why do some people try to be who they’re not?  Why do I get so frustrated so easily?  Why do people hurt each other?  Do some people really not realize how hurtful their words and actions can be?  Am I hurting someone and not realizing it?  I keep on thinking about the scripture from Matthew Chapter 7, “Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye?  How can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when all the time there is a plank in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye (vs.3-5).  I keep on thinking about it because I so do not want to be the hypocrite with the plank in my eye.  Now I will be the first to admit that I have a long way to go and a lot to learn about following Jesus Christ, but I can honestly say that I have such a longing in my heart for Jesus and His Ways that I know that I am on the right path.  I will mess up and I will not always show Christ’s love perfectly, but there is no doubt that I love him and I desire to do what he asks me to do.

Now I said all that in order to give you some background of what has been on my mind lately, so that you would understand this.  Tonight, just a few minutes ago, when I took my dog out, I stood in the middle of my yard and stared into the night sky and became completely overwhelmed by the Spirit of God and his depth, his majesty, his greatness, his being, his love---I even looked up and said, “God you told each one of these stars where to go and made them shine”.  God has shown me many things in the past, things that gave me chill bumps, things that deepened my breathe, things that made me cry, things that made me smile, but tonight---well it was just different.  I really don’t know how to describe it, except that I was completely overwhelmed by His Spirit that surrounded me in the dark of night.  I was completely assured that He is in complete control of my life and everything else in this world.  I have always trusted God, but now it has went to a new level.  I was overwhelmed, comforted, loved, assured, and humbled by the one true God that visited with me tonight.  All this lead me to read Job 38 & 39 once again---He is God and I am me, the one that He created me with a purpose and a plan that was written by Him and who am I to question any of that?  I truly believe that we can never reach our potential until we are humbled enough to know that we can’t reach anything without Him leading us there.           

He is truly the author and finisher of my faith!