Simply Amazing
Exodus 3:2-6 New Living Translation (NLT)
2 There the angel of the Lord appeared to him in a blazing fire from the middle of a bush. Moses stared in amazement. Though the bush was engulfed in flames, it didn’t burn up. 3 “This is amazing,” Moses said to himself. “Why isn’t that bush burning up? I must go see it.” 4 When the Lord saw Moses coming to take a closer look, God called to him from the middle of the bush, “Moses! Moses!” “Here I am!” Moses replied. 5 “Do not come any closer,” the Lord warned. “Take off your sandals, for you are standing on holy ground. 6 I am the God of your father—the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.” When Moses heard this, he covered his face because he was afraid to look at God.
Today, when I woke up, it hit me how absolutely amazing God is and has been to me. I know most of you are looking for a miraculous story to follow this statement, but the miraculous story is He has truly been better to me than I have been to myself, and in spite of all of my mess ups, falling down and getting it right and wrong He still loves me and still loves to spend time with me and cares enough about me, to give me more chances than I deserve. He is simply amazing because He loves me the way no other can love me and in the midst of one of the most challenging years of my life, He continues to bless me and keep me, even when I have no clue how it is all going to work out. Amazing, God is because He is God all by himself, and when people had not the ability to be my burning bush, He was the flame in the midst of my life, that did not consume me, but kept me and lite the most dark of circumstances.
Do you ever take a moment and stop and consider how amazing God is? How it doesn’t take Him doing anything, but it is about Him just being who He is, and loving us and seeing in us, what we would never see within ourselves. I remember years ago Denise Williams sang a song, “God is Amazing,” the lyrics say, “He is a friend in need, He is a problem solver, He is the strength, that never let's you fall, He is your peace, faith is the key! He is the Light, that brightens up the day, He is the Shepherd, whose flock don't ever stray, Faith is the key, if you only believe…God is truly amazing, My God amazing is He Giving you peace if you only believe, faith is the key, in time of need, my God amazing is He.” God is so much and He does so much for us, but yet many times we lack standing in awe of who He is because we do not recognize His awesomeness and the sheer wonder because we are worried more about what people think, we are looking at the wonder of people and we are more amazed by where people are then who God is and can be to us. For some of us we are just caught up in what we view are the overwhelming circumstances in our lives. But if we stopped for one moment to recognize that if we stand before God we stand on Holy ground; if we could recognize that we are standing in the presence of the creator of the universe the one who has the ability to speak a thing and have it come to pass, we would understand the magnitude of who we have not just before us, but with us.
God really is amazing, and He is truly a wonder, but there are many things that can block us from seeing His majesty and His splendor, if we allow it. But if we choose to stay focused on how He truly is as the fire that burns but does not consume us; that He is the creator of all things, that He loved us enough to give us life, choice and chances, we would understand that He is all we really need to be successful, to be happy, to overcome and to be at peace, because He possess all that we need; truly He is all sufficiency in perfection. God is amazing, for many reasons, but mainly because He is God all by himself and He was, is and is to come!
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