Funny word, percolating. You probably have to be from close to my generation to know what percolating is. With Keurig now pouring your cup of coffee almost instantly, the idea of putting your cold water in the bottom of your percolator coffee pot, adding the basket with the coffee grounds, setting it on your stove and turning the element on, then waiting and watching while it bubbles and "percs" until it's finally ready is all foreign now.
I find that ideas come to me and then percolate and bubble in my mind and develop over time. When I finally sit down to write out my thoughts, they kind of pour out. I sit back at the end and read it over and think, "Wow! Interesting how that all came together! Thank You, Holy Spirit!"
So here's what's been brewing lately:
A few weeks ago, a younger friend, mother of a couple of little girls, messaged me and said how she is fine with coming to God with her bigger problems, but doesn't like to bother Him with the little details. I replied that that could almost be considered an insult to God. That we would imagine that He is incapable of running the universe and also pay attention to each and every detail in the life of each and every one of the billions of people on the earth is to dismiss His omniscience and omnipotence. It shrinks Him in our view.
Ours is the God who "counts the number of the stars; He calls them all my name" (Psalm 147:4) and we know there are billions of trillions of them! Doing a hop, skip and jump through Isaiah 40:12-26, we find that God "measured the waters in the palm of His hand, measured the heavens with the span (of His hand) and calculated the dust of the earth in a measure, weighed the mountains in a scale and the hills in a balance...stretches out the heavens like a curtain and spreads them out like a tent to dwell in...brings out the host (of the stars) by number; He calls them all by name, by the greatness of His might and the strength of His power; not one is missing."
Notice, though, that this comes right after "He will feed His flock like a shepherd; He will gather the lambs with His arm, and carry them in His bosom, and gently lead those who are with young" (verse 11).
He is the God who knows the number of your hairs. Yours! That in itself would be an incredible and ever-changing number, but then multiply that by the population on the earth and it gets really staggering!
Psalm 139:17, 18 "How precious also are Your thoughts to me, O God! How great is the sum of them! If I should count them, they would be more in number than the sand. When I awake, I am still with You."
Psalm 40:5 "Many, O Lord my God, are Your wonderful works which You have done; and Your thoughts toward us cannot be recounted to You in order; if I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered."
As usual, this reminds me of a song, "Indescribable" by Chris Tomlin:
From the highest of heights to the depths of the sea,
Creation revealing Your majesty.
From the colors of fall to the fragrance of spring,
Every creature unique in the song that it sings;
All proclaiming
Indescribable, uncontainable,
You placed the stars in the sky and You know them by name.
You are amazing God!
All powerful, untameable,
Awestruck we fall to our knees as we humbly proclaim:
You are amazing God!
Who has told every lightning bolt where it should go
Or seen heavenly storehouses laden with snow?
Who imagined the sun and gives source to its light
Yet conceals it to bring us the coolness of night,
None can fathom.
Indescribable...
Incomparable, unchangeable,
You see the depths of my heart and You love me the same,
You are amazing God.
You are amazing God.
Let's meditate on this fabulous, compassionate God. Let it percolate!
I love the fact that you used the word 'percolating' for I often use that to describe what God is trying to show me and I do not fully understand but it is percolating in my spirit. God is so good for He saturates our spirit with His so that we will understand all that He is trying to tell us.
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