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While I was in college, one of my Neuroscience professors said to me, “God? Really? Sorry, not enough evidence. I don’t buy it.”
Really?
Not enough evidence?
For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse.
– Romans 1: 20
Take a break today.
Stop, take a breath, and look around.
“Cease striving and know that I am God;
I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth.”
– Psalm 46:10
The glory of God is on display for all to see. May we open our hearts and be humbled in His presence.
We are without excuse, we are confronted with God at every turn in our daily lives. We are accountable to God and responsible for our actions. We cannot escape His hand in our life.
Where can I go from Your Spirit?
Or where can I flee from Your presence?
– Psalm 139: 7
He is good, gracious, mighty, merciful, compassionate, and ever-present.
He is stable, constant, and eternal.
He is here.
1God is our refuge and strength,
A very present help in trouble.
2Therefore we will not fear, though the earth should change
And though the mountains slip into the heart of the sea;
3Though its waters roar and foam,
Though the mountains quake at its swelling pride
– Psalm 46: 1-3
May we seek Him.
You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart.
– Jeremiah 29: 13
May we long for Him.
My soul is consumed with longing
for your laws at all times.
– Psalm 119: 20
For indeed, He is not far from us. And He will be there.
24“The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth and does not live in temples built by hands. 25And he is not served by human hands, as if he needed anything, because he himself gives all men life and breath and everything else. 26From one man he made every nation of men, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he determined the times set for them and the exact places where they should live. 27God did this so that men would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from each one of us. 28‘For in him we live and move and have our being.’ As some of your own poets have said, ‘We are his offspring.’
– Acts 17: 24-28
Amen and Amen, to His glory forever.
**Thanks to my wife for the beautiful pictures, she had the presence of mind to grab the camera before we stumbled to the beach at 6:00am for the sunrise**
We’ve recently discussed Paul’s time in Damascus after he met Christ (found here).
And we know from Gal 1: 17-18 that after being accepted as a genuine apostle, Paul spent three years alone in Arabia.
How amazing and how wonderful to picture the uninhibited devotion Paul exhibited in the early years of his ministry? He knew where he had come from and he must have had some inkling of the life God would lay out before him. In need of strength, wisdom, and teaching, Paul sought God in the silence and the stillness.
He knew the words of God to Moses in Exodus 4: 11-12,
“11 The LORD said to him, “Who gave man his mouth? Who makes him deaf or mute? Who gives him sight or makes him blind? Is it not I, the LORD ? 12 Now go; I will help you speak and will teach you what to say.”
And in knowing these words, he was desperate to seek God, to know Him, and to have his heart and mind filled by the truth and wisdom God was offering. Paul knew he needed God’s words, and so he pursued that goal no matter the cost.
And wouldn’t we all benefit from three days (not to mention three years) of solitary confinement with only the Lord for company?
That we all could take time from our life to be still and know that He is God. (Psalm 46:10).
“Cease striving and know that I am God;
I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth.”
Psalm 46:10
another translation reads, “be still.”
how beautiful a picture, to simply be.
i am a do-er, i desire to do. to accomplish. to get things done. to be active.
but precious is he who’s heart is quiet before the Lord.
it is not what i do, it is who i am….who i serve….that defines me.
i existentially endeavor to find purpose and meaning in life, and i do so by striving.
but i forget to exist as His child, to simply be.
