LET THERE BE...

If I say that or you say that it will not likely result in something be created out of nothing. That is a quality only that happens with the Lord makes such a comment. And I can say from what I have experienced that it is a good thing only God can create life or anything related to it in the physical realm.

I’m not sure I would want to have that ability even if I could given my writer’s somewhat bent form of imagination. So I am grateful to the Lord that he did have the prudence and wisdom to not allow us that kind of ability.

I was reflecting on the Lord’s wisdom the other day in other ways too. For example my mind gravitates to the sense of justice where when something wrong happens to a person he or she deserves some kind of compassion or healing. Only to me admittedly for such things as a being wounded socially it would be fair from my view if the person received recognition in replace of being left to feel they were an outcast.

Now that might be wonderful in a movie. And it even works in real life upon occasion. I saw a movie the other day that was based upon a true story about an underachiever who went on and did what everyone told him he couldn’t do. It was a marvelously inspiring story. Yet I also know of the number of times when there are plenty of people who try and never succeed despite having given the effort their total passion and labor.

This brought me to ponder why doesn’t the Lord do that kind of thing more often with Let there be? It sure isn’t because he lacks the ability to take downtrodden and raise them up in some dramatic way. Still to often it doesn’t happen. In that there is left for the person whose dreams never come true the haunting sense of inequity.

Why doesn’t the Lord grant us more opportunities to see our dreams come true, especially the healthy ones that would inspire? No, I’m not going to pretend to know the mind of God in that regard. I am going to share at least one thought that I feel he gave me on the subject.

Essentially I think God will not do anything in that regard, which would in fact corrupt us or work against our on good. In some situations thus if he were to offset some terrible injustice by placing the person in the limelight it would in fact affect them in a negative way. It would lead to arrogance and they too might give in to the desire to abuse others. That would hardly be profitable would it?

Unto each person who has been broken by life and never felt the warmth of approval or the limelight I encourage to keep continuing to trust in the Lord. We might not receive the fruit of our labors we deserve in this life, but we can cling to the knowledge that in his presence where it can’t be corrupted we shall be comforted.

That may not pay the bills or earn a person the rewards to offset the tears in this life. But it to me is that little hug from invisible hands belonging to a divine heart that truly knows my every breath and the pain I have endured. I rejoice over the day that will come and trust him that in his presence that kind of story will never be forgotten.