How Different Might Your Life Be?

August 17, 2017

How Different Might Your Life Be?

For it was you who formed my inward parts;

    you knit me together in my mother’s womb.

I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.

    Wonderful are your works;

that I know very well.

Psalm 139:13-14 (NRSV)

God loves you with an everlasting love!

God accepts you unconditionally, just as you are!

God embraces you with tenderness beyond your comprehension!

If you believed God’s love for you, if you accepted God’s acceptance of you, if you reached out to “lay hold of that for which Christ Jesus has also laid hold of (you)” (Philippians 3:12 KJV), how different might your life be?

Our God is multifaceted in His splendor. Most often, God’s attributes are identified as omniscience (infinite knowledge), omnipotence (unlimited power), and omnipresence (present everywhere). He is also omni-benevolence (perfect goodness). Psalm 139 extols all these virtues of God, our Savior. Psalm 139 inspires us to sing,

Oh, the glory of Your presence

We, Your temple, give You reverence

So arise to Your rest

And be blessed by our praise

As we glory in Your embrace

As Your presence now fill this place

O The Glory of His Presence

Karen Clark-Sheard

(The daily devotional, Jesus Calling: Enjoying Peace in His Presence by Sarah Young is an outstanding resource to help you live each day in the glory of His embrace.)

When we truly believe, accept and embrace the truth of God’s love for us, we will join the psalmist in an invitation to God, our Father,

Search me, O God, and know my heart;

    test me and know my anxious thoughts.

Point out anything in me that offends you,

    and lead me along the path of everlasting life.

Psalm 139:23-24

Sē’lah

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(Selah is a word that appears in the Book of Psalms that I often use as the Complimentary Closing in my correspondence. Its meaning, as I use the word, is to pause and think about these things.)

These meditations are written by Alex M. Knight as he seeks the life in Christ as his way of life.  The meditations are published on the BLOG, http://seekingthelifeinchrist.blogspot.com/ and they are also distributed on the Constant Contact email server. You may subscribe to this email service by sending an email to: amkrom812@gmail.com.

Copyright © 2017 by Alex M. Knight

Publications by Alex M. Knight:

·        Seeking the Life in Christ, Meditations on the New Testament and Psalms has been published and is now available at Amazon.com in paperback and Kindle.

·        The second edition of  First Think – Then Pray is available on Amazon Kindle.

·        Meditations on The Story of My Life as told by Jesus Christ has been released as an e-book on Amazon Kindle.

Unless otherwise indicated, all Scripture quotations are taken from the Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers Inc., Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. All rights reserved.