Thought for Tuesday January 29th

January 29, 2013

Who Am I

Do you ever stop to consider yourself in respect to the vastness of the universe surrounding you?

   But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away. And there is none that calleth upon thy name, that stirreth up himself to take hold of thee: for thou hast hid thy face from us, and hast consumed us, because of our iniquities.  But now, O Lord, thou art our father; we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all are the work of thy hand.

Isaiah 64:6-8

“Men are never duly touched and impressed with a conviction of their insignificance, until they have contrasted themselves with the majesty of God. ”

-       R. C. Sproul

In a world that teaches us to foster our self image; to build up our self esteem and to see ourselves as the center of our world: it is often hard to understand and embrace the idea that without God we are nothing.

Without God giving us air to breath we would die.

Without the benefit of God’s handiwork in creating human kind; our bodies would fall apart rather than replenishing and doing all the amazing things our bodies do to keep us functioning and alive: in spite of the many abuses we perpetrate upon them.

Without God there would be no universe to comprehend: nothing of which to learn about or to learn from: there would be nothing but a void emptiness and there would be no purpose for our existence.

Yet we know we were made by God, for God and He has a plan and a purpose for every single one of us.

We are fearfully and wonderfully made for the purpose of honoring the one who made us.

He knew us before time began: He knew our name, our shoe size and every little nuance of our personalities and that did not diminish His plan, His love and His desires for us.

Yet so many times we think we can make it on our own; without Him – and how wrong are we?

If it were not for Him – we would not be and without His plan – we would be hopelessly lost; aimlessly wondering about with no hope or meaningful purpose.

When you put who we are in perspective: we are everything in Christ and nothing without Him.

Today’s Prayer

Father, I know you are more than amazing, and I know in you I can be more than amazing too; but without you I can be nothing: so keep me close to you and don’t allow me to loose sight of where my strength, purpose and meaning comes from.