Jeremiah 23:23-24 – “Am I only a God nearby,” declares the Lord, “and not a God far away? 24 Who can hide in secret places so that I cannot see them?” declares the Lord. “Do not I fill heaven and earth?” declares the Lord.
Psalm 139:7-12 – Where can I go from your Spirit? Where can I flee from your presence? 8 If I go up to the heavens, you are there; if I make my bed in the depths, you are there. 9 If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle on the far side of the sea, 10 even there your hand will guide me, your right hand will hold me fast. 11 If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me and the light become night around me,” 12 even the darkness will not be dark to you; the night will shine like the day, for darkness is as light to you.
A.W. Tozer wrote “Yet how He eludes us! For He is everywhere while He is nowhere, for “where” has to do with matter and space, and God is independent of both. He is unaffected by time or motion, is wholly self-dependent and owes nothing to the world His hands have made.”
Today most elevate earned knowledge above faith, but knowledge eludes those who trust self to gain knowledge and who sneer at faith. Yet wisdom and faith in God bring esoteric wisdom to those know what it is to sit at the feet of God and listen.
Oh Lord God Almighty we are enthralled by You!
Why should any part of Your creation
Distract us from the beauty of You?
Why should anything powerful bring us to awe
When You are before us?
Our amazement belongs to You Oh Lord!
We delight over a butterfly that
Lands and rests upon our palm.
As it stretches out its wings and
Rests upon our hand,
Though we have the might
To crush, it need not fear
And does not fear.
We are awed by its fragile beauty
And give it good reason
For its trust,
Which will not be betrayed.
We understand a sacred moment
Of protecting the given trust of one
Who seeks refuge in our hand.
Lovely is it and so trusting and fragile.
In the sanctity of its trust
And of the special moment,
We are moved to love and protect,
To guard from harm
With all our might.
We instantly love and delight
In this beautiful delicate creature.
Then, like a drawn horse
Our thoughts move from the butterfly
To our Lord who loves us so.
As delicate and trusting as the butterfly is
More so are we to the God.
As loving and protecting as we to the butterfly
Is the Lord to us.
In His palm we rest and trust,
We are safe and calm
In His palm,
Why would we jump from so sure a foundation,
To an unknown landing
Where death seeks to prey?
The butterfly cannot explain our existence
And it does not demand from us an explanation,
Or justify ourselves.
It merely enjoys the security we provide.
Lord, may we be as wise as the butterfly
That does not demand to fully understand,
Or explanations of why we are trustworthy.
May we live in faith
On the hand of You God
You hold us.
In the hand of God is peace and security
In the hand of God we are loved and kept.
In the hand of God may we be,
As wise as the butterfly,
Resting completely upon You.
Psalm 150:6 – Let everything that has breath praise the Lord. Praise the Lord!
Micah 7:7 – But as for me, I watch in hope for the Lord, I wait for God my Savior; my God will hear me.
Micah 6:8 – He has shown You, O man, what is good; And what does the Lord require of You but to do justly, to love mercy, And to walk humbly with Your God.
Numbers 6:24-26 “The Lord bless you and keep you; 25 the Lord make His face shine on you and be gracious to you; 26 the Lord turn His face toward you and give you peace.”