The Mysterious Methods of His Majesty
He knows how to approach you.
He knows how to teach you things that are within your purview.
He knows how to gently and with peace show you things which will lead you to make good choices.
He tests you, not to prove how weak you are or to humiliate you in a mean way, but to simply show you where you are and what you need to work on.
If you persist with arrogance and pride, the humiliation will befit your heart's attitude.
If you are open and willing, the gracing of the lesson towards humility will be a welcomed revelation... you will be grateful and pleased.
His Way is subtle, not loud.
His Way is peaceful, not violent.
His Way is by, through and in love, always... even the consequences and disciplines derived from transgression.
To blame Him when things 'go wrong' in your life is to misinterpret the reason why you get a flat tire at the 'wrong time.'
To point the finger at Him when you fail to:
- not be humble in the face of pride
- not be kind in the face of strife
- not be loving in the face of hate
- not forgive when your heart deceitfully says "forget them... they deserve what happens to them" is blindly forgetting 'who' you are and 'who' He really is... and 'who' He desires you to become!
You are a creation of His.
You were created to praise His Holy Name.
He had you in mind prior to you being born.
If you are still breathing and reading this, you are loved and have been blessed with life.
You also have the choice to participate in the divine nature, which is by faith... and live that experience which brings eternal life in glory along with Him who shines brighter than the sun!
You have searched me, Lord, and you know me.
You know when I sit and when I rise; you perceive my thoughts from afar.
You discern my going out and my lying down; you are familiar with all my ways.
Before a word is on my tongue you, Lord, know it completely.
You hem me in behind and before, and you lay your hand upon me.
Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too lofty for me to attain.
Where can I go from your Spirit?
Where can I flee from your presence?
If I go up to the heavens, you are there; if I make my bed in the depths, you are there.
If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle on the far side of the sea, even there your hand will guide me, your right hand will hold me fast.
If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me and the light become night around me,” even the darkness will not be dark to you; the night will shine like the day, for darkness is as light to you.
For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb.
I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well.
My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place, when I was woven together in the depths of the earth.
Your eyes saw my unformed body; all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.
How precious to me are your thoughts, God!
How vast is the sum of them!
Were I to count them, they would outnumber the grains of sand - when I awake, I am still with you.
- Psalm 139:1-18
He knows how to teach you things that are within your purview.
He knows how to gently and with peace show you things which will lead you to make good choices.
He tests you, not to prove how weak you are or to humiliate you in a mean way, but to simply show you where you are and what you need to work on.
If you persist with arrogance and pride, the humiliation will befit your heart's attitude.
If you are open and willing, the gracing of the lesson towards humility will be a welcomed revelation... you will be grateful and pleased.
His Way is subtle, not loud.
His Way is peaceful, not violent.
His Way is by, through and in love, always... even the consequences and disciplines derived from transgression.
To blame Him when things 'go wrong' in your life is to misinterpret the reason why you get a flat tire at the 'wrong time.'
To point the finger at Him when you fail to:
- not be humble in the face of pride
- not be kind in the face of strife
- not be loving in the face of hate
- not forgive when your heart deceitfully says "forget them... they deserve what happens to them" is blindly forgetting 'who' you are and 'who' He really is... and 'who' He desires you to become!
You are a creation of His.
You were created to praise His Holy Name.
He had you in mind prior to you being born.
If you are still breathing and reading this, you are loved and have been blessed with life.
You also have the choice to participate in the divine nature, which is by faith... and live that experience which brings eternal life in glory along with Him who shines brighter than the sun!
You have searched me, Lord, and you know me.
You know when I sit and when I rise; you perceive my thoughts from afar.
You discern my going out and my lying down; you are familiar with all my ways.
Before a word is on my tongue you, Lord, know it completely.
You hem me in behind and before, and you lay your hand upon me.
Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too lofty for me to attain.
Where can I go from your Spirit?
Where can I flee from your presence?
If I go up to the heavens, you are there; if I make my bed in the depths, you are there.
If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle on the far side of the sea, even there your hand will guide me, your right hand will hold me fast.
If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me and the light become night around me,” even the darkness will not be dark to you; the night will shine like the day, for darkness is as light to you.
For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb.
I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well.
My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place, when I was woven together in the depths of the earth.
Your eyes saw my unformed body; all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.
How precious to me are your thoughts, God!
How vast is the sum of them!
Were I to count them, they would outnumber the grains of sand - when I awake, I am still with you.
- Psalm 139:1-18
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