Words, Works and Wonders

UV 1364/10,000 Words, Works and Wonders
Many, O LORD my God, are thy wonderful works which thou hast done, and thy thoughts which are to us-ward: they cannot be reckoned up in order unto thee: if I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered.
Psalm 40 v 5

The blessings of the Lord are so numerous that they cannot be counted. They are so varied and great that they cannot be described. His creativity is so great that we cannot fully comprehend how it all works together. His thoughts about each of us is also so numerous, great and wonderful that we cannot fully comprehend how one mind can keep track of billions of lives at the same time and simultaneously be intimate with each and every one. He is so great and infinite that we need to wonder as David did as to why He bothers about us at all. Why is He mindful of us? In other words, His mind is full of thoughts concerning His children. He is always thinking of sending some fresh blessing our way, some word of teaching to build us up, some promise to claim in our hour of need, some warning to heed. He is always feeling one with us in our suffering and in our joy. He is always acting to redeem us from some attack of the enemy, some crisis or some situation where we need help.

For the past four years, every day I have attempted to number the thoughts of God but this uni-verse says that His works and His words are beyond numbering. But we can experience His thoughts, His works and His words in our lives. Each uni-verse sets up an expectation in our hearts. It relates wonderfully to us as we face the reality of life. One way of experiencing God’s grace in all our ways is to declare and speak of it. When we declare and speak of it, it is in God’s eyes as good as acting on faith. We are confessing our faith positively and the Lord will hasten to answer us wonderfully. My younger daughter recently asked me why I am so excessively positive in my writing, I thought about it. The Lord revealed that since the world and human beings are excessively negative, an excessive degree of positivity based on scripture rather than imagination or illusion can only offset the levels of negativity we confront in this world.
Our conversations with our near and dear should be mingled with the Word. Just as God is mindful of us, we too need to be mindful of Him. The world teaches the technique of mindfulness for stress release. The mind cannot be filled with a vacuum or be filled with itself. How much more meaningful and useful it is to be mindful of God and of His Word! Our minds and hearts should always be thankful and mindful of God’ s presence and His wonderful works in our lives, His thoughts towards us. His Word is key to our understanding and experience of His wonderful works of grace. When we speak or declare His Word, miracles are set in motion. When we are believers in Christ, do not expect the ordinary but the extraordinary, not the average but the exceptional, not the mediocre but the excellent to happen to us and for us to cause to happen. We become part of the cycle of cause and effect that the Lord has authored. We are not just spectator or audience but also participant.

Prateep V Philip