HIS WISDOM, HIS PLAN

 

               

^{Psalm 104:24} O IAUE, how manifold are Your works!
In wisdom You have made them all.
The earth is full of Your possessions—
²⁵ This great and wide sea,
In which are innumerable teeming things,
Living things both small and great.
²⁶ There the ships sail about;
There is that Leviathan
Which You have made to play there.

 

74:13You divided the sea by Your strength;
You broke the heads of the sea serpents in the waters.
¹⁴ You broke the heads of Leviathan in pieces,
And gave him as food to the people inhabiting the wilderness.

 

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I have just learned quite how important it is to be familiar with the scriptures.  However, had I been more familiar, these verses would not have been in my thought today.

 

Psalm 104:24 begins with the psalmist telling IAUE that he knows that he made everything, 'in wisdom'.  There is nothing 'half baked' about IAUE's plan.  There is nothing that is not perfect.  It describes how we (and I include the saints, as we are all part of this) know that the earth is full of IAUE's possessions.  Everything belongs to Him.  Living things, both small and great, are on the earth, both on land and in the sea.  'Innumerable teeming things'.  Lots and lots and lots.  Ships are sailing about in the sea.  They all 'belong' to IAUE.  He sees the ships and their crew through the winds and rain, or He does not.  Either way, it is His perfect plan, and it is done in His wisdom.  There is also Leviathan. Leviathan is depicted as a sea monster.  In modern Hebrew, it is a whale.  A whale in biblical times was considered more of a monster than it is today.  However, in this verse IAUE made Leviathan play in the sea.

 

As I read, I thought that I had seen IAUE breaking the heads of Leviathan.  Not only did I know that there was a verse, but I had just seen it.  It was in the previous verse, so I returned to psalm 74/. 

 

74:13 You divided the seas by Your strength. You broke the heads of the 'sea serpents' in the waters.  (14) You broke the heads of Leviathan in pieces, and gave them as food......

 

Everything in this world is made by IAUE in His wisdom.  He gave the sea serpents, and Leviathan to the people to eat.  It makes perfect sense.  Whale meat was used during the war when there was a scarcity of meat and fish.  IAUE made Leviathan in His wisdom.  In verse 104, he makes Him play in the sea.  Leviathan is not such a monster in 104, he is just a creature playing in the sea.  It is something that IAUE has created in His wisdom because there is a time, and there was a time, when the people needed to eat. 

 

IAUE's wisdom is something that we need to understand. 

The depths of life

Once again, I have been thrown into the depths of  'life', and whilst I have not forsaken all things spiritual, I have felt slightly lost.  My husband sent me a 'Thought for the day', verse a couple of weeks ago, and I felt it was good practice to do this.  We recently moved offices, and our drive is such that we do not have enough time on the road to read the scriptures as we used to.  However, most mornings we read a chapter at home, then read psalms and proverbs.  (Every thirtieth psalm, depending on the date.  Today would be 12, 42, 72 etc.  Proverbs 12)  However, my husband had a very disturbed night last night, and I let him sleep, so our morning reading was non-existent.  Occasionally we come to the office early, so our morning reading does not happen.  Studying the 'next day's psalms', has become an excellent past time.  If we read them the next day, as well, it brings more thoughts.  As I have been writing, I have felt like I am meant to share.  So, this was my first 'thought for the day'.  I doubt that I will post every day, but when I feel that I should, I will! 
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Psalm 28:1 To You I will cry, O IAUE my Elohim:
Do not be silent to me,
Lest, if You are silent to me,
I become like those who go down to the pit.
² Hear the voice of my supplications
When I cry to You,
When I lift up my hands toward Your holy sanctuary

When we cannot hear the voice of IAUE, what do we do?  Do we consider that we are 'like those who go down into the pit'?  Do we wait until he 'comes back to me'? 

We ask that he listen to the 'voice of our supplications'.  We ask that he hear our prayers.  Yet when he is silent, do we ask Why? 

How many times have we 'started again', because we have failed.  Just like the alcoholic, who falls from 'the wagon', we wait for our 'binge' to run its course, and then come back to the meeting place, because we can be sure that those inside will take us in, and we can stand there and say, 'My name is...., It has been 1 day since I had a drink'.

We are confident of IAUE's love, yet we throw it around like a used rag.  We discard it at will, because it is a 'constant'. 

What if he was silent forever?  What if we became like those going down to the pit.? How long would it be before we started to cry and beg forgiveness?  How long would it be before we forgot that His Kindness is everlasting.