Friday Morning in O.C.

Hello all,

Just sitting here at my old Starbucks in Costa Mesa enjoying a morning off and meditating on the Lord as my car gets repaired... Don't get me wrong, this is not my "old Starbucks" because I am a coffee fanatic (though I do like coffee); no, rather, it is my "old Starbucks" because I used to work here about 2 years ago. Besides a change in the staff, things haven't changed much! I see the same customers!

As I was reading Spurgeon's morning devotion, which spoke of God's unending abilities to strengthen and carry us, it dawned on me just how weak and feeble humans are. Think about it-- God created the universe, keeps the planets aligned, the stars in place, the world spinning; He keeps the oceans from swallowing up the land, the people from flying off into outer space... He feeds the animals, created cosmic laws and governs the universe without any problem... And yet, we sit here and think that He might have a problem helping us! How absurd!

And yet, we think that! We feel that, rather. We feel He is likely to forget us, to abandon us, to be unable to solve what "huge" problems we find ourselves in... We cry out to the Lord thinking that we need to beg and plead and whine for Him to take pity on us and help us... And that if He does choose to help, that His help may be insufficient.

This isn't a lesson on how we should not be so silly, because I don't think any amount of lessons could fix that. It is just that I have caught a glimpse of how silly and weak humans are. We are like little babies who can't yet control their limbs and shake them as we cry, yet we think that we are giant, strong warriors who can wield a sword and conquer the toughest foes. How goofy we are! What inflated opinions we have of ourselves!

But God has mercy, and loves us, even as we love our earthly children who hand us a piece of scribble art with the impression in their minds that it is a Van Gogh masterpiece worth millions. How grateful I am that He has such kind tender affections toward us silly, feeble, weak creatures. And that He Himself became one of us, suffering all the same emotions and feelings of helplessness that we are so prone to-- yet He knew the truth of God's strength and help and love toward us. And that He came to teach to us, that we might obtain the gift of that very same thing which He freely offers to us.

Praise God!
He is awesome.
Merry Christmas everyone! :)