It is important to recognize that God dwells in a different realm. He occupies another dimension. “My thoughts are not like your thoughts. Your ways are not like my ways. Just as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts higher than your thoughts” (Isaiah 55:8–9).
Our thoughts are
not like God’s thoughts. Our ways are not like his ways. He has a different
agenda. He dwells in a different dimension. He lives on another plane.
What controls
you doesn’t control him. What troubles you doesn’t trouble him. What fatigues
you doesn’t fatigue him. Is an eagle disturbed by traffic? No, he rises above
it. Is the whale perturbed by a hurricane? Of course not; he plunges beneath
it. Is the lion flustered by the mouse standing directly in his way? No, he
steps over it.
How much more is
God able to soar above, plunge beneath, and step over the troubles of the
earth! “What is impossible with man is possible with God” (see Matthew 19:26).
Our questions betray our lack of understanding:
This knowledge
gives us confidence as we face the uncertain future. We know that he is in
control of the universe, and so we can rest secure. But important also is the
knowledge that this God in heaven has chosen to bend near toward earth to see
our sorrow and hear our prayers. He is not so far above us that he is not
touched by our tears.
Though we may
not be able to see his purpose or his plan, the Lord of heaven is on his throne
and in firm control of the universe and our lives. So we entrust him with our
future. We entrust him with our very lives.
His Forgetful Nature
“As far as the
east is from the west, So far has He removed our transgressions from us.
Psalm 103:12”
Recently I was
thanking the Father for his mercy. And I
began listing the sins he’d forgiven.
“Remember the time I…” But I stopped.
Something was wrong. It didn’t
fit.
Does he
remember?
Then I
remembered. I remembered his words in
Hebrews 8:12: “And I will remember their sins no more.” Wow!
God doesn’t just
forgive, he forgets. He erases the
board. He destroys the evidence.
He burns the
microfilm. He clears the computer. He doesn’t remember!
No, he doesn’t,
but I do, you do. That horrid lie. The time you exploded in anger. That date.
That jealousy. That habit. Spiteful specters that slyly suggest, “Are
you really forgiven?”
Do you think God
was teasing when he said, “I will remember your sins no more?” Of course you don’t. You and I just need an occasional reminder of
God’s nature. His forgetful nature!
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