From Him, Through Him, To Him- GLORY

Romans 11:33 Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and how inscrutable his ways!
34 "For who has known the mind of the Lord,
or who has been his counselor?"
35 "Or who has given a gift to him
that he might be repaid?"

36 For from him and through him and to him are all things. To him be glory forever. Amen.

I was just listening to Scott and Jody Frankfurt's song and had to go to this passage.

I often have questioned God's ways and His decisions. How can I question what He is doing, His motives, His decisions or His judgments? He knows all and does what is best for me. I need to trust Him. His ways are His ways, not our ways. He doesn't need to run anything by us before He acts. His ways are unsearchable. Glory be to Him.

None have known His mind and none has ever given Him counsel. He asks no one for advice, and this is in keeping with the fact that it would be idolatry for Him to ask another their opinion. We are not over God.

Who has ever given to God? The best we have to give back to God is what He has most recently given us, and yet I often withhold it. He doesn't necessarily want to take it from us, He just wants us to be willing to give it up, if that is what He requires. He gets to choose.

When our hearts and minds are in sync with His, when we are seeking to please Him in all that we do, this is when His glory if most displayed. He will get glory in whatever happens, it might as well be in us exclaiming to the world His greatness, rather than Him glorifying Himself by crushing us.

Lord give us right perspectives. Make us to see that You are all in all. Let us see Your glory in ways we have not seen before, that in "the seeing" our glorifying of You would increase.

Thanks Scott for sharing your sweet Jody with us, for your sweetness and for your love of our great God.