Blessed Be His Name (By Mike Mills)

September 22, 2017 - O Lord, you have searched me and known me! You know when I sit down and when I rise up.” (Psalm 139:1-2)

“Though I walk through the midst of trouble, you preserve my life; you stretch out your hand against the wrath of my enemies, and your right hand delivers me.” (Psalm 138:7)

“Where shall I go from your Spirit? Or where shall I flee from your presence?” (Psalm 139:7)

“For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother’s womb.” (Psalm 139:13)

“I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well.” (psalm 139:14)

These verses from God’s Word are from the songs of king David and tell a wonderful story of life. A story of the creation of each person on earth, formed in the womb by our eternal Heavenly Father who knows all, see all, and is all.

The power of God being incomprehensible for man, we see his creations and we marvel at many, but we cannot understand how it could have been done.

But, that is the mystery of faith, believing in what we cannot see, but knowing in our hearts that it is true and knowing that one day we will see what we cannot see today.

For those who have accepted Jesus Christ as our Lord we understand, through faith, that many of the mysteries of life are not meant to be understood, that is the mystery of faith.

Yet we do understand from the scriptures that God is everywhere, that He watches over his own, that he knows our every move, our every thought, even before we think it. How we cannot know, but that he can, we do know.

If we have faith we know that wherever we walk, God is there protecting us through the Holy Spirit.

That we cannot escape his sight, no matter how we try to hide our sins, he sees all, and we are filled with praise for him and his greatness and majesty. And we know that once we have accepted his offer of salvation from the penalty on sin we are truly blessed for eternity.

“There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death.” (Romans 8:1-2)

Born in a weakened state by the sin of Adam, spiritually dead in the sins of the world but lifted from the pit of death into the light of the Lord by the sacrifice of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

“For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh, in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.” (Romans 8:3-4)

Let us be thankful as we walk through this foreign world, knowing that our home is not here but in heaven with our Lord.

Let us give thanks that because of the sacrifice of Jesus that we have become heirs of the kingdom of God. “For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God.” (Romans 8:14)

Blessed and hallowed be the name of our Lord… May his grace and mercy fall upon you this day and may his blessings be yours for ever…