thoughts on Psalm 40:5

Many, O LORD my God,
are the wonders you have done.
The things you planned for us
no one can recount to you;

The nature of God is so unpredictable. We never know what is just ahead. But God has plans. His hand is not seen but his activities are witnessed by those who feel His strong hands on the clay of our lives.

He doesn't do what we think he should. I've been getting rid of a whole lot of pretty bows that i once used to tie my life together. i figure, God doesn't use them so neither should i. life is best lived untied. because that's life.

i see blind samson
goliath headless
martha in kitchen
and mary in worship
that's life.

i see john beside him
judas behind him
and peter ahead of him and i say
that's life

i see jabez successful
and jeremiah broken
elijah hungry
and king david feasting
and i say that's life.

let me see what's today
let me trust for tomorrow
let me laugh
let me weep
in the same precious moment.
and if i do
i will bow down before him
because He's is our Daddy
and we are his children
we don't understand it so
squeeze every drop
from the essence of the not-knowing

that's life.

Comments

[Frank Nihart]

I see God's people decade by decade inching away from Him and that's not life, that's death.

I see my own failings to the third power and that's not life, that's weariness.

I see Jesus and I don't want to face Him sometimes because of habitual sin and that's not life, that's sad.

I see my second grand daughter turning one this week and that's super life.

I see my wife who is second only Jesus in devotion to God and that's God giving me life through Him and her.

I see the way I've come and the way I could have gone and that's life and that's scary and awesome.

[Matt Tullos]

Hi Frank! Great response. Bless you`