Follow Me

Jesus told Peter and Andrew, "Follow me." Matt. 4:19

On Memorial Day week-end son-in-law Mat rented a house at Smith Lake and asked me to join the crowd after church on Sunday. Mat and I met at church, and afterward I followed him in my car through several twists and turns to the rented house.

I had very little idea of where we were going, but that didn't matter, because Mat knew exactly where we were headed, and I was following him. Not only did I keep his truck in sight, but he watched my car in his rear view mirror. I was confident that, if for any reason I lost sight of him, he would stop and wait for me or come back and find me. He probably would have driven faster if he had been alone, but he was careful not to drive any faster than was safe for me to drive.

You have probably already made the analogies, which are pretty obvious, but allow me to spell them out anyway. None of us knows what the future holds for us or which paths we should take, but God knows, and we just need to follow Him. If for any reason we lose sight of Him, we can be certain He always knows where we are, and He will find us and restore our view of Him. And He could do anything He wants to do alone, but He limits Himself and His actions in our world to our limitations. He stretches us but never too much.

Thank You, Father, that you never lose sight of me. You never push me too hard or too fast. Thank You that You know the way, or the ways, that I should go, and if I follow You I will stay on track and arrive at the right destination. Amen.

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!