I've been reading Psalms 120-134. Each called "A song of ascents", they were probably written to be sung as pilgrims approached Mt. Zion for the annual feasts. Every one of these songs has something in it that I want to meditate on.
But Psalm 131 has a phrase that really caught my attention. This song is attributed to David who spent a lot of time with God. At the end of verse 1 he says, "I do not occupy myself with things too great and too marvelous for me." That struck me as a very important verse for me.
I recently heard a preacher talking about God's will. He asked and answered his own questions. Is God sovereign? Yes! Does God know ALL things? Yes! Does man have free will to choose? Yes! How can you have both? I don't know!!
That is one of the things that has been debated for centuries. But it is a concept too great and too marvelous for me! There are other things that I just will not know about God or life or death until I get to heaven some day. In the mean time, I do not need to occupy myself with them. I do not need to spend time debating or trying to reason or prove these concepts. I just need to believe that my God it too great and too marvelous for me to completely understand these things now.
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