Our Creator

Have you ever felt less-than-worthy to walk with God? When reflecting on the events of our day at times they seem to brand us with uncertainty about having thought, spoken and acted like a Christian.  Last night I was having one of those “less-than-worthy” moments . . . feeling as if I hadn’t met the requirements of fully loving those around me.  The Lord surprised me with the following conversation;

“I am everywhere, all the time. I don’t disappear when you walk in the flesh.  How can your opinion of yourself influence Me, and make Me walk away from you? Is your opinion what I should base My love on?”

When the Lord spoke of being everywhere all the time, I thought about God’s ominousness.  And when He said that He didn’t base His love on my opinion of myself, I sensed that He is our Creator and knows us better than we know ourselves.  We read about both these concepts in Ps 139:1-12;

You have searched me, Lord,

and you know me.

2You know when I sit and when I rise;

you perceive my thoughts from afar.

3You discern my going out and my lying down;

you are familiar with all my ways.

4Before a word is on my tongue

you, Lord, know it completely.

5You hem me in behind and before,

and you lay your hand upon me.

6Such knowledge is too wonderful for me,

too lofty for me to attain.

7Where can I go from your Spirit?

Where can I flee from your presence?

8If I go up to the heavens, you are there;

if I make my bed in the depths, you are there.

9If I rise on the wings of the dawn,

if I settle on the far side of the sea,

10even there your hand will guide me,

your right hand will hold me fast.

11If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me

and the light become night around me,”

12even the darkness will not be dark to you;

the night will shine like the day,

for darkness is as light to you.

As our Creator God not only knows and loves us, but He bears with our failures.  He does not assess our behaviors in the manner we do, for He has a truer measuring rod than we do.  That allows Him to value us, even when we see only failure in our days.  Today, let us remember that God is with us, and has invested His efforts in our lives so that we might be in His, now and forever.  Amen.