Godliness #8—Praised By Godliness

Know that I AM has set apart the godly person for himself. So I AM hears when I call to him. Psalm 4:3

Before any of my days began, O Lord, you had ordained them all and written them in your book. This was no whim, nor capricious contingency. Your grace toward me is unique and makes me significant in your sight. I am a thread in your tapestry, not a piece of lint on your sleeve. You oversaw the genetic dispersions and conglomerations that would lead to my parents and to me. You knit me together in my mother’s womb. Through storm and earthquake and plague and war, through family squabbles and governmental bumbling, you guided history’s course until the moment arrived when you chose to bring me into your picture. Timing, location, culture; nothing left to chance. How exquisitely precise! How magnificently complex! But more than just include me, you chose me, setting me apart to have fellowship with you forever—to walk in the light with you apprehending and appreciating all that you do, and to act as an agent of your goodness to those you place in my life. You sent your Son to die in my place so you could turn me from an ungodly, insulting individual into a person who will enjoy you and be a source of praise throughout eternity. By the power of your Spirit, you are purging my heart of the fear and pride that keep me from fully admiring and approving how infinitely and irreplaceably valuable you are, so that one day I will be fit to dwell in your presence, ready to experience all the fullness of God. How utterly gracious! How totally benevolent! How wonderfully merciful! How amazingly glorious! Amen and amen!