The Special of the Day… From the Orange Moon Cafe…
"Perfect"
"Perfect in character. Perfect in intention. Perfect in wisdom. Perfect in capability. The list can go on and on regarding the God whose perfect way proceeds forever and in this moment from the perfection of His being."
"As for God, His way is perfect" (II Samuel 22:31).
What if, rather than perfection, the Psalmist had affirmed God's determinations and allowances as good? Or very good? Or great? Or very great? We would remain supremely confident in "the integrity of His heart and the skillfulness of His hands" (Psalm 78:72). However, could we "trust in the Lord with all thy heart?" (Proverbs 3:5; emphasis added). Perhaps we could and would. However, "perfect" leaves no room for doubt or hesitation in flinging our souls without abandon upon the trustworthiness of God.
This includes the blessings, the challenges, and the mundane of this day and hour. God can be trusted about everything in our lives. He can be thanked for the pleasant because "every good gift and every perfect gift cometh down from the Father of lights." He can be relied upon in pains and difficulties because He is "a very present help in trouble." He can be acknowledged in everyday repetitions and responsibilities because "I am with you always" (James 1:17; Psalm 46:1; Matthew 28:20). Perfection promotes such promise, that is, the perfection declared by Scripture and believed by our hearts. "I will praise the Lord with my whole heart" declared the Psalmist because he knew God's determination to care for His people with "My whole heart and My whole soul" (Psalm 111:1; Jeremiah 32:41).
Perfect in character. Perfect in intention. Perfect in wisdom. Perfect in capability. The list can go on and on regarding the God whose perfect way proceeds forever and in this moment from the perfection of His being. We must know this about Him, planting deeply within our hearts the conviction that whether we understand His ways or not, all of them flow with the current of absolute, spotless integrity and omnipotent skill. "As for God, His way is perfect." No truth more inspires and enables our confidence in the greatest evidence of all regarding divine perfection, namely, the Lord Jesus Christ…
"Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers, but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot."
(I Peter 1:18-19)
"He is the Rock, His work is perfect: for all His ways are judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is He."
(Deuteronomy 32:4)
Weekly Memory Verse
"In Thy presence is fulness of joy; at Thy right hand there are pleasures forevermore.
(Psalm 16:11)
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