Life's Little Frustrations

At the stop sign I came to a "rolling stop."

Unfortunately I failed to see the cop

Who was hiding in a nearby thicket,

But he saw me and gave me a ticket!

God, the Creator

Psalm. 19:1, "The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands."

If we look at cultures down through the centuries, we can see that man has always felt a need for someone wiser and more powerful than himself to worship. If I begin to wonder if we have come up with the idea of God as a figment of our imagination in order to fill our need for someone to worship, I go right back to creation.

Order does not come from chaos. If I were to throw a million letters of the alphabet on a huge table, what are the chances that they would form themselves into a dictionary or an encyclopedia or the Great American Novel? Behind every design there is a designer. In creation it is plain to see that God is very real, all wise, all powerful, separate from His creation, and truly the Creator of everything.

Think about just how incredible God's creation is. There are approximately 400 billion stars in the Milky Way Galaxy alone. Astronomers estimate that there are more than 100 billion galaxies. And each galaxy probably has more than 100 billion stars! And each of these stars was personally hung in space by the Creator Who not only knows exactly how many stars there are in space, but He knows each one of them by name! Is there anything in your life that seems too big for God to handle?

God also created in minute detail. He made 75,000 miles of blood vessels in each human body to carry blood to over sixty trillion cells. John Phillips tells us that "A mere piece of skin the size of a postage stamp requires three million cells, a yard of blood vessels, four yards of nerves, one hundred sweat glands, fifteen oil glands, and twenty-five nerve endings." A drop of ditch water can hold 500 million microscopic creatures so tiny that a teaspoonful of water would be to them what the Atlantic Ocean is to us. Is there anything in your life that you think is so small and insignificant that God might overlook it?

Our God, Father, Creator: How truly great You are!!! Amen.

Life's Little Frustrations

When I call and get a recording

I'm as frustrated as can be.

I want to speak to someone

Who can talk right back to me!

The Unchanging

"We have this hope as an anchor for the soul, firm and secure."  Hebrews 6:19a

Probably the most unchanging quality of life is that it is constantly changing. It is never static. Thomas Wolff wrote a book entitled You Can't Go Home Again. Home, and the people in our home towns, change; so, we can never go back to the same place where we grew up.

It is true that we need changes in our lives to help us stretch and grow, but we also need something--actually Someone--Who is eternally unchanging as an anchor for our lives, our goals, and our faith. The hope we have in God through Christ is "an anchor of the soul, a hope both sure and steadfast." This anchor holds us firm and steady through all our circumstances regardless of how fiercely the winds of change assail us.

God tells us in Malachi 3:6, "For I the Lord do not change." Hebrews 13:8 tells us that our Savior "Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and, yes, forever." God's Word never changes. We have seen the meanings of many words in our society come to mean something entirely different than they did originally, but God said what He meant, and He meant what He said, and it will stand for eternity. His promises are as true for us now as the day they were written down.

Hebrews 6:19-20a in The Message says, "We who have run for our very lives to God have every reason to grab the promised hope with both hands and never let go. It's an unbreakable spiritual lifeline, reaching past all appearances right to the very presence of God where Jesus, running on ahead of us, has taken up his permanent post as high priest for us..." Thank You, God. Thank You, Jesus. Amen.

Life's Little Frustrations

I've observed that it seems to happen

Much more often than not

That a person who is always cold

Marries a person who is always hot!