16 NOV 23 Thursday: A Closer Walk Devotional

 16 NOV 23 Thursday: A Closer Walk Devotional

“We can make our own plans, but the Lord gives the right answer. We may throw the dice, but the Lord determines how they fall.” Proverbs 16:1, 33

Some may look at these verses from the Proverbs and cringe because they tell us something significant about God that can leave us unsettled.  We often can put God in a box mentally so that we can comfortably understand what we can,  limit our fear, limit his involvement, and project our desires.  The more you read and study Scripture, the magnitude of God grows beyond our ability to control.

This is a good thing because it can bring us comfort, strength, hope, and fear.  God is almighty, all-powerful, all-knowing, holy, righteous, and present everywhere.  He is outside of time and space and is not bound by any of it.  He made everything we can and cannot see.  If you were to look at the pictures from the new James Webb space telescope, you would be amazed.  While NASA hopes to disprove the existence of God, it is doing the opposite.

The more pictures it takes, the greater the magnitude of God in our eyes.  We can think that we have this autonomy to live our lives apart from God and carve out or determine our destiny.  But God determines our every step, life, death, and eternity.  Before the foundation of the world, he knew his children, chose his children, and his children will be with him for eternity.  Nothing happens without God’s permission, nothing.

What does the magnitude of God spark in you?

Reading Plan: Psalm 34; Proverbs 16; Rev. 19:1-10; Matt. 16:1-12