Tuesday, April 30, 2019

What's That Button For?

         I have several different Bible programs on my computer.  One of those programs provides free classes on how to operate the program and to get to learn all of the features.  I have been using the program for a number of years but thought I might as well try a couple of the courses since they were free anyway.  I took just two, so far, of about a dozen classes on various aspects of the program and was really surprised.  There are a number of features that I had no idea even existed.  Sometimes, it was just a number of the menu buttons that I had no idea what they did anyway, so just ignored them.  I am embarrassed to say that the classes were in the "beginner" stage.  I look forward now, to learning more about this program.  When I think about it, I am reminded about the following verses from the book of Ephesians.  Ephesians 3:20-21 says, "Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us,   Unto him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end. Amen." 
        We can know the basics of being a Disciple of the Lord Jesus Christ, like salvation, heaven and living the Christian life.  There is however, that little clause that says, "...able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think..."  My knowledge of the things that God can do, has done, or will do is so much limited.   I am fascinated by the discourse between Job and the LORD in the final chapters of the Book of Job where God tells Job just a portion of the things that He has done and is doing even in Job's lifetime.  There are so many different things that I have not figured out how they take place, yet God does them and we only know just a portion of His working in the universe.  I don't know how God parted the Red Sea, or Joshua  watched the Jordan River stop flowing and allow the Israelites to cross over on dry ground, or the ascension took place or how the Holy City is going to ascend and hover above the earth or how God is going to life the depression or discouragement that is in our lives, but God does it all.  Then, to think that He even does more than we ask or think!   How is it that God can get a bunch of hornets to get into the armor of an advancing army?  I can't stand to have a bee in the car!   Yes, God is able to do a lot more than we even think about.  So, praise God today for His mighty acts that occur even in your own life.

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