Faithful and Gracious Is He

Soap
9/4/10

Scripture

Psalm 145:13, 14
The LORD is faithful in all He says;
He is gracious in all He does.
The LORD helps the fallen
and lifts up those bent beneath their loads.

Observation:

I have heard that the Christian faith is nothing more than a crutch to lean upon (Halleluiah!) or a cop-out when things get tough. What many non-believers do not seem to get is that we humans are extremely weak and fragile when compared to the reality of this fallen world, which is ruled by the seen and unseen forces that hate God and everything He stands for, and that we all need something greater than ourselves ( or anything the world has to offer), when this reality shows its ugly head (2 Peter 1:2-4).

Application:

As God’s created beings, we depend on Him for everything we need to sustain us, both our physical needs as well as our spiritual needs (Acts 17:25). It is only by His grace that we have everything we need (2 Corinthians 12:9) and it is out of His abundant love that He watches over us (including those who want nothing to do with Him or His ways). Much like a human creator does with his creation, our sovereign God, even more so, carefully puts us together with His loving hands wanting only the best for His people by perfecting in us what we were intended to do; and that, my friends, is giving Him glory in all that we do. And we can be assured that when something goes wrong, He is right there doing what He does best—fixing us, the most precious of all His amazing creation, so that we can, one day, share in His Majestic Glory.

Prayer:

Thank you, dear LORD, for the Truth that speaks to our hearts, for the Grace that sustains us in a world that hates us, and for Your Love that saves us. Learning the Truth of who You really are is the only Hope we have in a world that can only promise us death. A world apart from You, the LORD Almighty, would indeed be a world of total senselessness—a world of utter chaos.