Week Four - Day Four: End of Day

So did you try to memorize Isaiah 55:8-9?

Have you noticed yet the mystery caught up in this whole idea of God’s holiness? In verse 6 of Isaiah 55 the prophet calls on us to “seek the Lord” but then two verses later God tells us that His thoughts are not our thoughts and His ways are not our ways. In other words, He is mysterious and incomprehensible. So how do those two things fit together? How are we supposed to acquaint ourselves with the incomprehensible? How do we reach out for what we by definition cannot really grasp?

Honestly, this is why I’m a Christian!

We seek – and we can find – because God reveals Himself to us. Otherwise we would have no hope of knowing Him at all. But because He reveals Himself, we can know Him.

Paul told the Romans “what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain … Since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities – His eternal power and divine nature – have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made.”¹

More than that, God has shown Himself preeminently in Christ! The author of Hebrews says:

“In the past God spoke to our forefathers through the prophets at many times and in various ways, but in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, and through whom he made the universe. The Son is the radiance of God's glory and the exact representation of his being, sustaining all things by his powerful word.”²

1. Try to think of four things that God has shown you about Himself.
   1. Through what circumstances has He shown you?
   2. Through what people?
2. Survey your day today. Was God stirring in some way that you need to now recognize?
3. End your day by praying: “Guide us waking and guard us sleeping; that awake we may watch with Christ and asleep we may rest in peace.”
4. Lights out!