Recently while doing the “everyday” things of life, I was taking some time at the beginning of the day to read the Bible. I came across one little verse that stopped me in my tracks. It wasn’t a shocker or a “Wow I never saw that” type of verse. It was more along the lines of a sudden crash into a wall and take stock of things kind of scripture. Here I was reading God’s word when all of a sudden it was as if the Lord said “Stop right there and read no further for a while!!! Take time to read this verse and meditate on it.”
The verse was from John 1:3: “… God created everything through him, and nothing was created except through him.” (New Living Translation-NLT)
I get so involved in going to work, participating in activities in my congregation or even doing something like reading a fiction book that I forget the source of all that I am and what I do. I forget that everything is from the Lord. Think about that for a minute. EVERYTHING is from Him. Though humanity may be involved in the manufacture of things, the very ideas or abilities come from Him.
Let’s have a little prayer time. Look around you. Start making a quick list of what you see. Now, one by one, start thanking Him for each one of them. It doesn’t matter how trivial the object. The very concepts for everything we see were known by the Lord before the foundations of the world. Even our own lives come from Him. Humbling isn’t it?
Are you a Pastor or Rabbi? Do you own a business? Are you a Doctor? Are you a housewife taking care of your children? Maybe you are a policeman or a farmer? You may even drive the Zamboni® ice-resurfacing machine used in indoor hockey arenas. What ever you do, never forget that the Lord is the source. The very idea for you being there is His idea. Your skills are from Him. Your future is in His hands.
“When I consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, the moon and the stars, which You have ordained, what is man that You are mindful of him, and the son of man that You visit him?
For You have made him a little lower than the angels, and You have crowned him with glory and honor.
You have made him to have dominion over the works of your hands; You have put all things under his feet, all sheep and oxen-even the beasts of the field, the birds of the air, and the fish of the sea that pass through the paths of the seas.
O Lord, our Lord, How excellent is Your name in all the earth. Psalm 8:3-9 (New King James Version-NKJV) emphasis with bold added
