Weighted Thoughts

Lord,

In the midst of darkness, the great mystery and beauty of your character shine beams of righteousness, purity and holiness into the darkest corners like a beacon of life ... your perfection has no equal in all that exists

You are the origin of wisest counsel offering the keys of satisfying life to any who will listen and the examples of your character are life giving to those who follow ... yet men of dust seek to prove their own wisdom

You are the Creator and source of all that is truly good. The fruit of your Spirit is the essence of all that is true beauty and the desired goal of good hearts to replicate ... yet men still lust after things that decay

You have given life to all that lives and all that you have created obeys you save only some that you have given that choice. But in the end, you will not deny yourself justice ... choice is responsible to destine a foretold future

You walk among the stars and they reflect your glory. All the bodies of heaven orbit in a dance that you alone have decreed. Your power over all that exists is sovereign ... yet men shamefully regard their own strength

You alone possess the power to create. What men hail in their accomplishments are the mere reorganization or perversion of what you alone have already created to provide ... seeds of your grace to man 

You hold life and death in your hand and mete them out according to your own righteous will. You are blameless and just in your rule over all that you have created ... yet some challenge your right to position

You are beyond true challenge, for there are none your equal. There are none worthy of their own accord to be measured against the mere shadow of your Glory ... yet some build reason for cause to boast of their own

While you created mankind for your own great pleasure and you alone make provision to sustain them, the hearts of men are tempted toward their own pleasure ... and in spite of their gain, are left lonely

While men of stature over others declare their arrival for all to see, as the majestic God over all of creation coming as the Savior of mankind, you entered quietly ... to claim a potent victory of the ages

While men struggle to elevate themselves and rise to power in triumph, Omnipotent God having all power and whose breath gives birth to stars, you came in humility ... the King Of Heaven as servant to men

While men seek the highest positions and attain the majority, Sovereign Lord, highest among the host of heaven, you made the choice to occupy the earth among the least ... humbled and alone to offer salvation to the nations

While men seek notoriety and fame, You came humbly without due fanfare and offered up your majesty as the atoning, bloody sacrifice for lesser beings seeking their redemption ... humility became power to save the world

While mankind struggles and toils to build from what you have already created. You merely exhale breathing out new heavenly bodies and worlds divinely. Your power is extreme ... yet still, some deny you

While all of your works are more than just and your compassion is present to hold firm your patience even in your anger against those who deny you, some still challenge ... and some dare to accuse you

These things being true, they provide the consternation to ask in distress:

Is it the unworthy arrogance of mere men or perhaps the preponderance of men's insolence that hides the power of your sovereign example from the minds of those who reject it? ... Whatever the cause, the end will be eternally the same. For you are Sovereign God ... omnipotent ... omniscient ... and omnipresent to be worshiped by creation without equal and without reservation.

My lot by your grace, is to submit humbly in recognition and acknowledgment of your greatness to receive the unimaginable wealth that is mine by your sovereign choice to offer intimate relationship to a lesser and undeserving being - one created merely in your likeness ... and to worship you with great pleasure.