The Transformation

UV 531/10,000 Psalm 36 v 7 The Transformation ” How precious is Your lovingkindness, O God! And the children of men take refuge in the shadow of Your wings.” God’s love is precious and excellent. It excels or exceeds the bounds of our knowledge, wisdom, expectation and imagination. It cannot be understood in human logical terms. How can a person give up his only son for others? Being the only son, he is precious, yet what made the Father to give up Jesus as the sacrificial price to ensure eternity for others? Though the Son is precious in His eyes, He decided to give Him up for a time for what He deemed to be even more precious, the lives of all mankind for each of us is the apple of His eye or the most precious part of His eye. As the eyelids move over the eyeball, He folds and unfolds His grace and mercy to protect His children. His thoughts towards us are abundant and are contained in the numerous promises in the Word of God. Isn’t it amazing that by just believing in the Son and accepting that His life was sacrificed for us, we who are children of men have our status transformed into being “ children of God”? What does it mean to “ take refuge in the shadow of His wings” In order to taste of His lovingkindness or goodness, we need to hide in His presence. We need to place our lives and our future in His hands. We need to believe that He is both able and willing to cover us with His protective care as a hen covers its chicks to protect it from the predatory eagle. We need to trust and obey Him and believe that He is both able and willing to provide all our need as a mother bird feeds its young. He will both fend for us and defend us from assaults on our name, reputation, well being( spirit, mind and body) and prospects. Not only will we get the wages of our faith – eternal life , but when we hide under the wings of the Lord God, we get the bonus, too- a full reward for our work on earth . We will taste of His abundant mercies, grace and truth. We will be spiritually fed with the precious promises and the precious Word of God. Scripture says that “ we will be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of His house” and drink of the river of His pleasures. In the Old Testament times, the priests ate of the remnants of the ritually sacrificed meat. Now,we partake in the Communion of the body of Christ and in the abundant promises of God that applies to every real life situation any man or woman or child will ever face. The Word of God is a fountain of life, a fountain by which now a particular portion or verse rises in our consciousness and falls like water, and another column of water or another promise rises to fill its place. The primeval instinct of man and beast to “fight or take to flight” is replaced by fleeing to the presence of God and flowing in His abundant goodness. Both our status or our standing before God and the motive force driving our lives are transformed in the process. Prateep V Philip