Orange Moon Wednesday, August 19, 2026 "Our Prevailing Expectation"

The Special of the Day… From the Orange Moon Cafe…

    

“Our Prevailing Expectation”

    

      

      "My expectation is from Him” (Psalm 62:5).

    What is our prevailing expectation?  We all necessarily look to the future, preparing ourselves and making our plans for things to come.  “A man’s heart deviseth his way” declared Solomon (Proverbs 16:9).  As we anticipate and organize in earthly terms, however, we do well to remember the conclusion of Solomon’s statement above: “but the Lord directeth his steps.”  Regardless of how accurately we end up being in expecting and implementing things to come, God and His working will have been the primary reality of all.  We will not see most of what He did in fulfilling His purpose in our lives.  Indeed, our looking back may be no clearer than was our looking forward.  However, the tomorrows and yesterdays of believers all teem with the living, vital, and active presence of the God who “worketh all things after the counsel of His own will” (Ephesians 1:11).  Both planning and remembering thus call us to see by faith our Lord’s heart and hand as the prevailing reality that enables us to see tomorrow and yesterday clearly and rationally.  “To be spiritually minded is life and peace” (Romans 8:6).

    This day looms with much of earthly things to come, things for which we must anticipate and plan.  Amid all, an inviolable promise abides: “I will be with thee” (Isaiah 43:2).  Moreover, God will be actively with us, accomplishing far more of His gracious intentions for our lives than we can imagine.  We will see relatively little of the “wonders without number” He performs (Job 9:10).  We nevertheless make our plans for the day with the prevailing expectation of the living and true God serving as the truest reality of all…  “My expectation is from Him."

"As You Go"

     

I wait for you, My child, wherever you may go.

I'll be there when you arrive,

I'll be with you as you go.

We live our life together, you venture not alone.

Our hearts made one forever,

united in My Son.

I wait for you, My child, I'll be with you as you go.

I made you for such grace, to be My Spirit's home.

Oh, look into My face,

and with assurance know

that we'll always be together,  you'll never be alone.

We'll be as one forever,

each other's love to know.

I wait for you, My child, I'll be with you as you go.

Forever beckons to us, as does this day, this hour.

My Spirit's peace imparts the presence and the power

for you to journey with Me, in darkness or in light.

I am in your heart forever,

and in this day, this night.

I wait for you, My child,  I'll be with you as you ago…

I'll be with you as you go.

“The hope of the righteous shall be gladness.”

(Proverbs 10:28)

Weekly Memory Verse

    Being confident of this very thing, that He which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ.”(Philippians 1:6).

    

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Orange Moon Tuesday, August 18, 2026 "Fish That Swim"

The Special of the Day… From the Orange Moon Cafe…

    

“Fish That Swim”

    

      

      All of life is spiritual.  Of every human being, the Apostle Paul declared, “In Him we live and move and have our being” (Acts 17:28).  Certainly, this does not suggest that all know God in the personal terms of His redemption offered through the Lord Jesus Christ.  It does mean that whether one knows God by faith or rejects Him through unbelief, all exist as fish that swim in the ocean that is their infinite Creator.  “By Him, all things consist” (Colossians 1:17).

    Born again believers in the Lord Jesus know this truth as the great reality of our existence.  However, we know it only barely.  Indeed, the best and the brightest of us in terms of knowing God and His pervasive presence and working see only the scantest trace of that which can be known.  Who can understand or explain what it means that “in Him we live and move and have our being?”  The most educated students of Scripture, if honest, arrive as the doorstep of this statement and fall to their knees before entering (if they enter at all).  As one said, “It’s true, I know, and I believe it with all my heart.  Understand it with my mind, however?  Well, that is entirely another story!”

   Yes, it is.  I arrived at the threshold of Acts 17:28 more than a half century ago.  I know it to be true, and I know believing it does something deep within us as we realize that God serves as the milieu of our existence.  I do not begin to think, however, that fifty years of frequently pondering the wonder has resulted in comprehending much more than our opening proposal… “all of life is spiritual.”  This does not discount physical, earthly, and universal realities, of course.  As the products of God’s creative process, they are every bit as real and consequential.  It does mean, however, that regardless of how challenging it may be to fathom the great fact, we nevertheless do well to frequently direct a thought - or maybe a few - toward the reality that whatever is going in our lives and in the world, the active presence of the God who “worketh all things after the counsel of His own will” pervades all (Ephesians 1:11).

   I will conclude this consideration in a moment, pack up my bags, as it were, and go my way into the day, perhaps without another conscious thought of the nearly imponderable truth we presently ponder.   The reality will abide, of course, for me and for all.  We will swim as fish in the ocean that is God.  What this means, we barely know.  That it is the most important and vitally consequential reality of our existence is certain.  Yes, all of life is spiritual, in the sense that the existence, presence, and working of the invisible, but intimately involved God abides as the essential reality in which all “live and move and have our being.”  May we frequently arrive at the doorstep of such wonder, knowing we will barely enter into its light, but knowing even more that its glory will have an eternally consequential effect in our hearts and lives.

“Unto the pure, all things are pure.”

(Titus 1:15)

Weekly Memory Verse

    Being confident of this very thing, that He which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ.”(Philippians 1:6).

    

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