He who planted the ear, shall He not hear?
He who formed the eye, shall He not see?

Of all things that God IS – including God being BIGGER than anything – God being LOVE is the biggest hardest thing to wrap our heads around. I mean how does God know all these things about life and the universe and brokenness and God remains LOVE and LOVING to enemies too – How does Jesus’s Blood stretch that far and not get thin – or dried up from unuse by those who turn their hearts away from God – HOW???  BECAUSE GOD IS LOVE AND JUST IS.

GOD IS.

GOD KNOWS AND GOD LOVES ANYWAY.

We say in life, “it is what it is” but with God it just stops at the word and action and existence of “IS” = GOD IS. IS.

So for us to deny God does not make Him go away. For us to cling to Him does not make Him closer to us than to anyone else. He IS and therefore God IS omnipotent and ever-present and WITH us and LOVE to all. This is the tough thing to wrap our heads around. 

We say in faith, “God is running towards us when we turn towards Him.” Yet the truth is that He is here always – here/there always – not here never and not there never. He IS. God knows. We grow in knowing Him more.

The Psalmist states: “He who instructs the nations, shall He not correct, He who teaches man knowledge? The Lord knows the thoughts of man, That they are futile. Blessed is the man whom You instruct, O Lord, And teach out of Your law, That You may give him rest from the days of adversity…”

And what of our “enemies”? I think that we have to learn from the Old Testament to know true enemies to God are those who should have known Him and His ways and yet they ignore these truths, are ignorant of humility.

And what about people who “bug us”, I think some people are more likely to just be more greedy than evil, broken than evil, hopeless than evil, and stuck in a deep pit of sometimes their own doing, and that is because the bible says that THEY are not evil but the evil afflicts them. Yes, there are real evil forces that exist and in our day to day life, paranoia may inflicts us often more over the real physical harm or emotional harm. We can say that we are seeing the negativity but that doesn’t mean we have to “FEEL” the negativity or dwell on it – just keep walking forward. And say “Satan get behind me”. Say “Jesus, wash this whole situation clean.” and “Jesus, rescue me.”

My favorite image in my head of Jesus which I sketched is surely is of Him rescuing me from sinking in the depths of despair. And yet you probably would think it funny that my other image of Him – which I have seen nowhere (and should have an artist commissioned to paint) is a thought of Jesus with a piece of toilet paper stuck to the bottom of His Foot, and that toilet paper represents the evil that is TRYING to capture, embarrass, hassle, soil, and sting. And yet – when Jesus walks on water – what happens to the toilet paper – it is washed away.  Why does Jesus pull us out onto the water with Him – to show that HE IS IN CONTROL – and that He can carry us – and that He can be our focus and not the world behind us or under us or even in front of us – FOCUS ON JESUS – get YOUR STRENGTH AND PLAN AND PATH FROM HIM.

Evil exists – but Let God do the talking – and let God do the walking – and God do the Loving too. And thank the Lord for His Graces of when he has forgiven us too. Our pride is ignorance, sifted sand evil that He also has and will overcome in us by mercy love and grace.

Amen 

But those who seek the Lord shall not lack any good thing. – Especially how God Knows and God Loves (Anyway)… AMEN AMEN

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Psalm 94 NKJV
God the Refuge of the Righteous

O Lord God, to whom vengeance belongs—
O God, to whom vengeance belongs, shine forth!
Rise up, O Judge of the earth;
Render punishment to the proud.
Lord, how long will the wicked,
How long will the wicked triumph?

They utter speech, and speak insolent things;
All the workers of iniquity boast in themselves.
They break in pieces Your people, O Lord,
And afflict Your heritage.
They slay the widow and the stranger,
And murder the fatherless.
Yet they say, “The Lord does not see,
Nor does the God of Jacob understand.”

Understand, you senseless among the people;
And you fools, when will you be wise?
He who planted the ear, shall He not hear?
He who formed the eye, shall He not see?
He who instructs the nations, shall He not correct,
He who teaches man knowledge?
The Lord knows the thoughts of man,
That they are futile.

Blessed is the man whom You instruct, O Lord,
And teach out of Your law,
That You may give him rest from the days of adversity,
Until the pit is dug for the wicked.
For the Lord will not cast off His people,
Nor will He forsake His inheritance.
But judgment will return to righteousness,
And all the upright in heart will follow it.

Who will rise up for me against the evildoers?
Who will stand up for me against the workers of iniquity?
Unless the Lord had been my help,
My soul would soon have settled in silence.
If I say, “My foot slips,”
Your mercy, O Lord, will hold me up.
In the multitude of my anxieties within me,
Your comforts delight my soul.

Shall the throne of iniquity, which devises evil by law,
Have fellowship with You?
They gather together against the life of the righteous,
And condemn innocent blood.
But the Lord has been my defense,
And my God the rock of my refuge.
He has brought on them their own iniquity,
And shall cut them off in their own wickedness;
The Lord our God shall cut them off.

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Psalm 34 NKJV
The Happiness of Those Who Trust in God
A Psalm of David when he pretended madness before Abimelech, who drove him away, and he departed.

I will bless the Lord at all times;
His praise shall continually be in my mouth.
My soul shall make its boast in the Lord;
The humble shall hear of it and be glad.
Oh, magnify the Lord with me,
And let us exalt His name together.

I sought the Lord, and He heard me,
And delivered me from all my fears.
They looked to Him and were radiant,
And their faces were not ashamed.
This poor man cried out, and the Lord heard him,
And saved him out of all his troubles.
The angel of the Lord encamps all around those who fear Him,
And delivers them.

Oh, taste and see that the Lord is good;
Blessed is the man who trusts in Him!
Oh, fear the Lord, you His saints!
There is no want to those who fear Him.
The young lions lack and suffer hunger;
But those who seek the Lord shall not lack any good thing.

Come, you children, listen to me;
I will teach you the fear of the Lord.
Who is the man who desires life,
And loves many days, that he may see good?
Keep your tongue from evil,
And your lips from speaking deceit.
Depart from evil and do good;
Seek peace and pursue it.

The eyes of the Lord are on the righteous,
And His ears are open to their cry.
The face of the Lord is against those who do evil,
To cut off the remembrance of them from the earth.

The righteous cry out, and the Lord hears,
And delivers them out of all their troubles.
The Lord is near to those who have a broken heart,
And saves such as have a contrite spirit.

Many are the afflictions of the righteous,
But the Lord delivers him out of them all.
He guards all his bones;
Not one of them is broken.
Evil shall slay the wicked,
And those who hate the righteous shall be condemned.
The Lord redeems the soul of His servants,
And none of those who trust in Him shall be condemned.