by Gail Rodgers
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The writer of Proverbs 30:4 uses rhetorical questions to express God’s greatness. He asks:
“Who has gone up to heaven and come down? Who has gathered the wind in the hollow of his hands? Who has wrapped up the waters in his cloak? Who has established all the end of the earth? What is his name…?”
He is Jehovah-Hayah, the all - knowing, all - powerful and ever present God who possesses the heavens and the earth and is the architect and maker of all things. He is the one who is the architect of your life. He cannot be comprehended and yet he cannot act apart from His love for us.
~Lord God,
Today I praise You and thank You that You alone possess the heavens and the earth. You alone are the Builder and Maker of all things. Thank you that You never cease to be the architect of my life as well. Even though You traverse the universe and majestically hold all power, all knowledge and all creativity, You still take the time for and interest in my life. Your word tells me You think about me all the time and You desire to work in me and through me. You want to fulfill me in who You created me to be.
How often I keep You at bay and feel I need to be the builder of all things in my life. How often I believe I need to be the knowledgeable one and the creative one. How often I forget Your majesty and feel I need to manage all the details of my life.
Today I acknowledge that I cannot do this. I need You today to guide me through the maze of my own creation. Today I need You to plant Your peace firmly in the center of my heart and mind. Today I need the reminder that You alone possess the reins of my life as you possess the heaven and the earth.
I lean into Your power and might today. Forgive me for trying to be the all powerful one in my own circumstances. I lay my day and my life at Your feet and ask You to be the Builder and the Maker of all that I am and do this day. In the strong name of Jesus, with thanksgiving, I pray, amen.
Questions: How does knowing and believing what we have read about God today affect your daily living at work, at home, etc.? What are some ways God has shown His love to you personally?
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March 11th, 2008 at 3:24 am
I have been blessed knowing that God is Jehovah Hayah, He is all knowing and all sufficient. I place today my life and heart at his feet. I submit all my troubles and pains to him becuase he is all knowing. I need that inner peace that only God can give. God richly bless you for this word.
March 11th, 2008 at 4:04 am
I am thankful for this word that spoke into my heart today. It is so easy for me to try to fix and rebuild the broken places in my life. But My God: Jehovah Hayah is the great architect. It is in his creative and majestic hands that I must put my trust. I need to let him build mansions that stand rather than my makeshift huts that wont endure the storms of life.
March 11th, 2008 at 5:27 am
I get so confused with this concept. I’m responsible to make good choices, or if I choose wrong ones, so how can I lean on God as the architect? I still have to choose, and the consequences are my responsibility. Help!?
March 11th, 2008 at 6:07 am
An all powerful God blows me away when I think that I am only a spec and that he loves me and knows all about me and he made me. I am humbled and I kneel at it feet and say Thank you. I have a free will to choose but I only want to do what pleases him. It is all in his hands!
March 11th, 2008 at 6:09 am
Thanks Gail for the great reminder that every morning when we open our eyes, we must thank GOD for a good night rest and opportunity to live a life for HIM. I must always invite to rule and reign in my life as HE continues to write my life story.
May I quote you Joanna?
I get so confused with this concept. I’m responsible to make good choices, or if I choose wrong ones, so how can I lean on God as the architect? I still have to choose, and the consequences are my responsibility. Help!?
My response to you is found in James 1:17 NIV
“Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the FATHER of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows.”
All our wisdom, health and all great blessings comes from GOD who give it all to us because we are HIS creation. When we receive CHRIST HE enthrone HIMSELF in our body, soul and spirit not unless we push HIM out from there and put ourselves because we thought we can do a better job or decision. But even our thoughts belongs to HIM. So I must prostrate myself every morning and say, “Lord, please take over. Have a control in all the facets of my life” then I confidently walk all day talking to HIM whatever I do and I see HIS hands in all areas of my life. For me, life is that easy whether I walk thru difficulties, trials, good times and bad times.
Thanks Gail once again.
Romel
March 11th, 2008 at 8:29 am
Yes, the Lord is indeed the great Architect. All things are in his hands and each morning of my life I am grateful to Him. It is my prayer that He’d continue to lead, guide and direct my path. Help me make the best decisions according to His will and purpose for my life. Knowing that if I go through the storms of life it would equip me and even make me a better person and be able to help others. Lord I am truly grateful.
Shirl.
March 11th, 2008 at 8:30 am
i haven’t alway made good choises in my life . 2 weeks ago proves that is still true today where my pain is conserned i can only as GOD AND JESUS TO GUIDE ME THROUGH THIS AND THAT THE DOCTORS MAKE THE BEST DECION TO BE ABLE TO DEAL WITH MY PAIN.
March 11th, 2008 at 8:38 am
Iam so grateful for his grace and mercy in my life. As I often reflect back on the paths I chose for my life and how God continously kept me wrapped in his arms, I always find comfort. When my life gets disaray I’m reminded to sit down and move out of the way so he can do what he has always done for me.. bringing me peace, joy and understanding. Iam so blessed to know him and and have him head of my life.
March 11th, 2008 at 8:54 am
Joanna, I, too, will try to answer your question as I understand it.
God does indeed give us free choice, and we do often suffer the consequences of bad ones, but God still has a good plan for you. He tells us in Jeremiah 29 that He has “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you a hope and a future.”
But we must do our part to live in that plan. We must avoid those things that we know short-circuit our relationship with Him and spend time before Him before making major decisions for our lives. We must surrender our self-will in order to live within His will, and ensure that what we are doing/want to do lines up with His Word.
The really great thing is that when we blow it and walk outside of His will He is always willing to give us a second chance.
This doesn’t mean that we won’t still pay some of the consequences of our mistakes or experience some of the consequences of the sins of the world and those around us, but it does mean that we can rest in the fact that God is walking through it with us and that He sees the end from the beginning. Paul tells us in Phillipians 1 that He who has begun a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ. In Jude we read that God is able to keep us from falling and to present us before His glorious presence without fault, and with great joy.
Praying that God will encourage you as you seek His plan for you.
Jude
March 11th, 2008 at 10:17 am
I KNOW THAT I CAN NOT DO ANYTHING WITH OUT HIM
March 11th, 2008 at 10:20 am
I truly think the goal is to get up everyday and love as much as you can, forgive quickly, help if needed and encourage when given the chance and let God teach and lead. Exodus 14;14 tells us that if we let him he will fight our battles, if we are still.
March 11th, 2008 at 10:42 am
Hi Joanne Boy do I know what you mean - all those little decisions - then it seems the bigger ones take care of themselves. God’s revelation seems to come easier the more time I spend in His Word and with Him. Lately , Ive used a phrase I recently read about someone I regard as a woman of great faith - When you don’t know what to do - do the next thing! It seemed silly at the time ,but it keeps coming back to me as “don’t allow indecision to paralyze you” I ,like you, am desiring to improve my”batting average”.
I’m currently struggling with having confidence that the “idea” that comes to me is from God and I should act on it or do the “wait on theLord” Hope this makes sense. loreli, THANKS-THANKS-THANKS
March 11th, 2008 at 12:43 pm
Proverbs 3:5,6. Trust the Lord completely,don’t ever trust yourself. In everything you do put God first and he wil direct you and crown your efforts with success.
Psalms 119:105 Your word is a flash to light the path ahead of me,keep me from stumbling.
Scripture helps point the way to go. Praise the Lord!
March 11th, 2008 at 6:33 pm
God is faithful………always