"Above All of This"

"Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth away." (Psalms 144:4)

  It really does not have to be this way; I hope you realize that and grab hold of the abundant life that is available in Christ Jesus! To be perfectly clear, vanity is something to be compared with nothing much; much like the power of a gentle breeze, or the force from the breath of your mouth; it might be something that is detected, but it does not do much, and it really does not stick around very long. The colon between these two sections dictate that the same thought is bing continued, but the second is a definition of the first: which means that the same affect is given within the second description, that shadows really don't yield any power, and they surely don't stick around very long. Looking at this in context with what was shared yesterday, we can rest assured that our lives matter, regardless of this lack of power and shortness of life, because we are known and loved by our Creator! Jesus tried to make this point perfectly clear, saying, "Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith." (Matthew 6:30) If we look at from a little different perspective, like from God's point of view, our nothing much is worth a lot to Him: more than we can fathom with out little minds! Here is that thing Jesus did, "O ye of little faith." As I said before, it really does not seem as though it is a put down, but more of an observation or a fact. Your faith is only as good and as strong as what you put your faith into or on. We might not be able to see all the power available though faith in the Lord; but that same power is there, it's just in the Lord and not in us! We don't show up with it, and we don't leave with it; it is strictly by His power and might that might things get done; we simply are allowed to walk in the midst of what can be done though Him. Oddly enough, that is a pretty good illustration of that word vanity above; because it is really not about us, it's all about Him...

""You don't have enough faith," Jesus told them. "I tell you the truth, if you had faith even as small as a mustard seed, you could say to this mountain, 'Move from here to there,' and it would move. Nothing would be impossible."" (Matthew 17:20) NLT