Nothing Occurs to God

Meditations on

Staying In the Grace for Today 

January 16, 2026

Nothing Occurs to God

“. . . don’t you think that God will surely give justice to his people

who plead with him day and night?

Luke 18:7 NRSV

Has it ever occurred to you, that nothing occurs to God? The attributes of God are Omnipotence (all-powerful), Omniscience (all-knowing), Omnipresence (present everywhere), and Omnibenevolence (all-good/loving). As we saw in the preceding meditation, our Abba Father is active 24/7 in our lives. As we wait for God’s perfect timing to respond to our pleas and give us justice, we remember that God continues to be at work in us while we are waiting.

It clarifies the promise of Jesus in Luke 18, to remember he followed this teaching with his parable of the tax collector and the Pharisee. (Luke 18: 9-14) In this parable, who went away vindicated by God? It was the tax collector! This parable is an excellent illustration of justification by faith. The tax collector had little or no faith in himself, but he had great faith in his God of mercy. Jesus wants his followers to rest in their right-standing before God. Our right-standing comes not from our good work. Our right standing with God is based solely on our sure knowledge of God’s love for us. Brennan Manning understood this when he wrote, “God loves us unconditionally, just as we are, not as we should be. Because none of us are as we should be.”

My Takeaway: I see today as an invitation to meditate on my prayer life. Do I tend to hesitate in asking God for something because I don’t feel worthy?

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.

 

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