Tuesday, August 19, 2014

"God's In Control"

"Come, behold the works of the LORD, what desolations He hath made in the earth." (Psalms 46:8) Some people think that God does not really concern Himself with the small stuff, things like, if I am going to find work, or how do I care for someone that I love; but I believe God is into all the very details of our lives. I say this because of God's awesome detail that He has put into everything that He has made; nothing that He has made lacks some sort of complex structure that doesn't blow our minds when we start taking it apart and identifying all of it's parts; the structure of cells and molecules almost appear endless, yet He is in control of each and every one of them, all the time. God not only cares about what we care about, but He cares what we think about also, He cares about the thoughts that are running through our minds, and the things that we let our minds dwell upon. Talk about complexity, our minds are pretty complex, and I don't care what modern-day science may think that they know, the mind is far from being figured out; life itself is far from being figured out, let alone the life that is within the mind.The word for "desolations" is the word 'shammah', which has the primary meaning of waste, horror, or appalment; however, the same word has been used in the context of 'astonishment' far more than it has been used in the context of 'waste'. On the other hand, if you really want to get technical about God's creativity, then you could really start pointing at 'waste', as in the waste used up in the astonishment of the things which cannot be seen, or the things which are hard to be discovered. What I am trying to say, is that God has put far more detail into the little things and the things that need to be discovered, than He has into the things which are easily looked upon. Much like the stars in the sky, which when looked upon by a telescope are far more amazing then they are otherwise; what a waste...
"Hast thou entered into the springs of the sea? Or hast thou walked in the search of the depth? Have the gates of death been opened unto thee? Or hath thou seen the doors of the shadow of death? Hast thou perceived the breadth of the earth? Declare if thou knowest it all. Where is the way where light dwelleth? And as for darkness, where is the place thereof, that thou shouldest take it to the bound thereof, and that thou shouldest know the paths to the house thereof? Knowest thou it, because thou wast then born? or because the number of thy days is great? Haste thou entered into the treasures of the snow? Or hast thou seen the treasures of the hail, which I have reserved against the time of trouble, against the day of battle and war?" (Job 38:16-23)

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