(posted : Monday Aug 30, 2010)
I was reading in my quiet time this morning from Psalm 104. In these verses, God talks about growing grass for the cattle, and cliffs for the rock badgers, and trees drinking their fill and many other things. So I started thinking about that, and how that applies to me. This thought came into my head, and I wrote it down in my quiet time: God's full attention is not split; it is on me!
I was reading in my quiet time this morning from Psalm 104. In these verses, God talks about growing grass for the cattle, and cliffs for the rock badgers, and trees drinking their fill and many other things. So I started thinking about that, and how that applies to me. This thought came into my head, and I wrote it down in my quiet time: God's full attention is not split; it is on me!
For me, this is both an awesome thought and one that I cannot understand. I am somewhat of a multitasker, but if I get too many things going at once, I will lose touch with all of them. God does not multitask. Pause for a moment to let that sink in. After I wrote those words, I paused to absorb their impact. In fact, I am going to write them again. God does not multitask.
If you are like me, you probably know that God is omnipresent, omnipotent and omniscient (everywhere present, all powerful and all knowing). But most of us still picture God as a large man with long white hair and a long white beard sitting on a throne (that isn't God, that is Santa Claus). We think of standing in line in heaven to get just a few seconds of His time. I can't even begin to imagine what seeing God is going to be like in heaven, but I know it will blow us all away. However, we know His omni- attributes, but we don't see them in practical ways.
In this passage of Psalm 104, we see God intimately caring for each of these different created things, yet none of them were created in His image, and none of them have a soul. We know from Matthew 6:26 that God feeds the birds of the air. He cares for His creation.
If God is all knowing, and if He is all powerful, and if He is everywhere present, then God's undivided attention is absolutely on me. And God's undivided attention is absolutely on you. This is hard to understand, because we try to fit an immense, immeasurable God into our tiny little minds, and He just won't fit there.
So what does that do for me? How does knowing this help me? First of all, you are never alone. God is always with you. Second, God is always listening to you, so when you pray, you do not get His voicemail, and you do not have to worry about someone else "beeping in" on prayer-waiting. God will never put you on hold; He will never delete your message. God is always listening.
You have God's undivided attention.
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