Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us. Ephesians 3:20.

I wait for the Lord, my soul waits, and in his word I put my hope. My soul waits for the Lord more than watchmen wait for the morning, more than watchmen wait for the morning. Psalm 130:5-6.

This morning was one of those mornings when in prayer my thoughts wouldn’t still but jumped all over and back again. I couldn’t help but think in one of those rambling jumps that Jesus didn’t do what so many, including the Pharisees, thought should happen. That bothered them greatly! We like to order our lives, our worship, our work, our family and friends – and when we can’t we react. I don’t want to resist what newness God is leading me to understand. I want to be open to possibility and joy with Him. 

And this our next psalm, Psalm 8, shows us why! Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth!…You have set your glory in the heavens…Through the praise of children and infants you have established a stronghold against your enemies, to silence the foe and the avenger…v. 1, 2. Can you imagine? Through the praise of children and infants. When I think of all that is wrong in this world of ours, is it not the same old hate and lies and Sin throughout all ages of mankind? The Deceiver, the avenger and foe, is not original. His way of Sin is old and worn and destructive…no newness, no joy, no hope, no possibility.  Can we ask the same questions David is asking in our psalm? When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, what is mankind that you are mindful of them, human beings that you care for them? v. 3, 4. There is not one thing humans make that did not come from ingredients Creator God – Father, Son, Spirit – brought into being for us. And we are created, too. You have made them a little lower than the angels and crowned them with glory and honor. You made them rulers over the works of your hands; you put everything under their feet: all flocks and herds, and the animals of the wild, the birds in the sky, and the fish in the sea, all that swim the paths of the seas…v. 5, 6, 7, 8. Our God who creates, provides, and sustains us and all things – can we not see how wonderful is His heart of love? Can we allow ourselves to be surprised? Can we let Him be God and not us? Through the praise of children and infants…Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! v. 9. Lord, I will gladly follow You!