God gives

God’s resources are infinite. He created everything and therefore owns it all. But He is also eternally generous. He gives it all away. He didn’t want to share us with the devil, but other than that, He has freely given us all things: “stuff” He has created, His love and power, gifts of all descriptions, and the list goes on. Most of all, He has given us His Spirit and His Son, that is, He has given us of Himself, a divine mystery that we can never understand but one that we can believe and receive. God gave, God gives, God will give.

God is great. God is good.

His greatness no one can fathom!

“God is great. God is good.” I just read about a galactic structure 4 billion light years across. But God is greater than that. He inhabits infinity. God isn’t just “big.” He has power to create from nothing and to give infinite variation of shape and texture and color to what He creates. He breathes life and intelligence into parts of His creation. Absolute power corrupts us absolutely, but it does not corrupt God. This is all pretty awesome, but I see God’s true greatness in His mercy and goodness. If He were not absolutely good, we would have no hope. “He stoops down to regard the lowly,” like me. He gives the lowly favor and holds little lambs close to His heart. I am humbled by that heart.

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He remembers

God remembered us! YES!!!

“But God remembered Noah and all the beasts and all the cattle that  were with him in the ark.”  Genesis 8:1

God “remembered.”  We must be careful not to interpret this statement in human terms.  It does not mean that He was busy doing  something and suddenly “remembered” Noah, having completely forgotten him.  It means rather that God never forgot Noah. Despite all that Noah was going through, God never left him or forgot about him.  In fact, the word implies that God remembered Noah with an intent to act, to change Noah’s situation. Imagine yourself, if you can, in that ark with all those animals for months and months.  No windows.  Tossed about by the waves of the sea.  To know that God is about to do something to change your situation is great news.

In this fast‑moving and frantic world, it is easy to  feel lonely and forgotten.  Many believe that the world is forgotten of God.  If God were like a man, this might be possible.  Men forget all sorts of things, especially the needs of others. Even Christians sometimes forget about the God Who thinks about them  constantly.  It is a wonderful thing to know that God remembers me.  In the storms of life, He has not forgotten me.  His memory is flawless.  Though I sometimes doubt it, the Bible teaches that He is always thinking about everything that concerns me. It is a frightening thing to consider that He knows and remembers sins, but thank God that He has chosen to forget mine.