Monday, January 14, 2013

Mountain Shadows

I look up to the mountains; does my strength come from mountains? No, my strength comes from God, who made heaven, and earth, and mountains. He won't let you stumble, your Guardian God won't fall asleep. Not on your life! Israel's Guardian will never doze or sleep. God's your Guardian, right at your side to protect you— Shielding you from sunstroke, sheltering you from moonstroke. God guards you from every evil, he guards your very life. He guards you when you leave and when you return, he guards you now, he guards you always. (Psalm 121:1-8 MSG)

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God's Song: Just saying.....

God's Song: Just saying.....: Matt. 10:30  Even the very hairs on my head are numbered! What an awesome thought. That my Heavenly Father, GOD, knows me so well, that ...

Just saying.....

Matt. 10:30  Even the very hairs on my head are numbered!

What an awesome thought. That my Heavenly Father, GOD, knows me so well, that even the very hairs on my head can be counted by Him! 

The infinite is finite to Him...Imagine trying to count someone's hair strands. Just the thought should prove daunting.  Yet, there is One who knows exactly how many hairs are on my head.  And, friend, He knows exactly how many hairs are on your head!

Furthermore, all of my days are written before Him. " All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be." (Psalm 139:16 NIV)  He saw the beginning, the middle, and the end even before the days of my life started.  He knew this day exactly what I would be experiencing before I took my first breath.  He knew where I'd be. How imperfect I would still be.
"Thy eyes saw my substance, yet being imperfect; and in thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them." (Webster's Bible Translation)  And He knows where you are today. He knows how imperfect you are today 

Imagine, how intimately we are known and loved.  John 15:9-10 states,  “As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Now remain in my love.  If you keep my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commands and remain in his love."

An old hymn, When He Was On the Cross written by Ronnie Hinson and Mike Payne (date unknown),  puts it this way:

        " He knew me, yet He loved me. He whose glory made the heaven's shine.
          So unworthy of such mercy. Yet when He was on the cross that day, I was on His mind."

The  Bible says He chose us, before the foundation of the world to be His (see John 15).  So today, when I say, Even the very hairs on my head are numbered by my Heavenly Father GOD who loves me....I believe it