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Thoughts on today’s verse…
“I don’t know!”
This certainly seems to be one of the hardest phrases for us to say. When we think about God and His ways, especially His work on us and the plans He made for us when we were in the womb, that’s really all we can say. “I don’t know!” The truth we know about God and His ways with us when we were in the womb is only what He has chosen to reveal to us. He is the mystery of mysteries. He is supremely unknowable, knowable. Yet what we do know about Him, what He has revealed to us in Jesus, is that He is not only powerful and wonderful, but also loving, tender, and merciful. We know that His love is willing to sacrifice for us, so we can seek Him and find His grace. So in reverence, we kneel and pray to the Father whom we cannot fully know – at least not yet, but one day (1 John 3:1-3) – but can be fully assured that He loves us and wants us close to Himself.
Video commentary…
We have included Phil to collect Video from four years ago as an added blessing in our poem today:
My prayer…
For you, o God Lord, I offer my wonder and awe. When I contemplate the vastness of the universe in which our little blue planet wanders through its existence, I am humbled by your amazingly complex and all-encompassing sovereignty, so often expressed in tender mercy. Dear Abba Father, when I contemplate your greatness, I also value your closeness. You are the good Father who transcends space and time, yet You are also the Almighty God who is always near. Thank you for being sovereign yet accessible, for being available without being controllable. I thank you and praise you in the name of Jesus as I draw closer to experiencing you more fully. Amen.
