The Special of the Day… From the Orange Moon Cafe
"Wondrous"
Sometimes we need to still ourselves - with a Bible at hand and the acknowledgment of our teacher the Holy Spirit in heart - and pointedly ponder truths of God and His Word.
Consider prayer. Do we often contemplate the marvel of this gift given by an infinite Creator to finite creatures such as ourselves? How is it that He would so desire relationship, fellowship, and communication with us, particularly since in our physical birth, we descend from a race in which "all we like sheep are gone astray"? (Isaiah 53:6). Certainly, born again believers in the Lord Jesus Christ should pray with great confidence and freedom as we approach the throne of grace. However, we also do well to regularly shake our heads and bow our hearts in wonder that God calls us to Himself, and that "the prayer of the upright is His delight" (Proverbs 15:8).
Consider also the family nature of prayer. "Our Father, which art in Heaven" taught the Lord Jesus to serve our salutation to the infinite Creator (Matthew 6:9). "Our Father." ??????? We express ourselves accordingly in obedience to our Lord and in growing familiarity with God. However, we must never allow familiarity to foster complacency regarding the reality of a relationship that should amaze, awe, thrill, and overwhelm us by the grace of our place in "the whole family of Heaven and earth" (Ephesians 3:15).
"As many as received Him, to them gave He power to become the sons of God even to them that believe on His name" (John 1:12).
Perhaps most of all, the price of prayer must be allowed to completely shock and stun our hearts. "Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus" (Hebrews 10:19). Every supplication the believer offers approaches our Father based on the sacrifice His beloved Son offered for us. Indeed, it is one thing that the infinite God calls us to fellowship with Himself. It is another that He can righteously do so because He forsook His Son on the cross where He poured out His wrath on Him for our sake (Matthew 27:46). How much does God delight in the prayer of the upright? Let us look to Calvary. And then, let us fall to the knees of our heart in the wonder of prayer, and its confirmation that even familiar truths glimmer with the glory of the Light that both illuminates and blinds.
A trail of Blood marks the path
leading to the throne,
where God receives the trusting heart
approaching by His Son.
Without the cross, there could not be
this access freely known.
Without such sorrow, pain, and loss,
we'd have nowhere to go.
Yes, every prayer flows to the Throne
on flood tides of Christ's blood.
We come with grateful, trusting hope,
in wonder of such love…
A trail of Blood marks the path leading to the Throne.
"I will speak of the glorious honor of Thy majesty, and of Thy wondrous works."
(Psalm 145:5)
Weekly Memory Verse
Great is our Lord, and of great power, His understanding is infinite.
(Psalm 147:5)
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