03-09-2004, 08:58 AM
The UpWords Weekly Email Devotional
MaxLucado.com/newsletter
9/1/04
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THE OBSERVATORY -----
by Max Lucado
A few mornings back I was jogging through my neighborhood, and even I
could not miss the significance of that day. It was the first day of
school.
It was no surprise to me, then, to see a pretty little girl step out of
her house wearing new clothes and a backpack. “Have a great first day
of school,†I greeted as I jogged past.
She stopped and looked at me as if I'd pulled a rabbit out of a hat.
“How did you know?!Ââ€
She was stunned. Somehow I had miraculously discerned why she was up so
early and where she was going. And she was impressed.
“Oh, I just know those kind of things,†I shouted back to her. (No need
to burst her bubble.)
You, on the other hand, are not so easily impressed. You understand the
difference between a child and a grownup. Take the difference between
the girl and me, amplify it a million times over, and we begin to see
the contrast between us and our Father.
We ask for grace, only to find forgiveness already offered. (How did
you know I would sin?)
We ask for food, only to find provision already made. (How did you know
I would be hungry?)
We ask for guidance, only to find answers in God's ancient story. (How
did you know what I would ask?)
God dwells in a different realm. “The foolishness of God is higher than
human wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than human strengthÂâ€
(1 Cor. 1:25). He occupies another dimension. “My thoughts are not like
your thoughts. Your ways are not like my ways. Just as the heavens are
higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my
thoughts higher than your thoughts†(Isa. 55:8-9).
MaxLucado.com/newsletter
9/1/04
__________________________
THE OBSERVATORY -----
by Max Lucado
A few mornings back I was jogging through my neighborhood, and even I
could not miss the significance of that day. It was the first day of
school.
It was no surprise to me, then, to see a pretty little girl step out of
her house wearing new clothes and a backpack. “Have a great first day
of school,†I greeted as I jogged past.
She stopped and looked at me as if I'd pulled a rabbit out of a hat.
“How did you know?!Ââ€
She was stunned. Somehow I had miraculously discerned why she was up so
early and where she was going. And she was impressed.
“Oh, I just know those kind of things,†I shouted back to her. (No need
to burst her bubble.)
You, on the other hand, are not so easily impressed. You understand the
difference between a child and a grownup. Take the difference between
the girl and me, amplify it a million times over, and we begin to see
the contrast between us and our Father.
We ask for grace, only to find forgiveness already offered. (How did
you know I would sin?)
We ask for food, only to find provision already made. (How did you know
I would be hungry?)
We ask for guidance, only to find answers in God's ancient story. (How
did you know what I would ask?)
God dwells in a different realm. “The foolishness of God is higher than
human wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than human strengthÂâ€
(1 Cor. 1:25). He occupies another dimension. “My thoughts are not like
your thoughts. Your ways are not like my ways. Just as the heavens are
higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my
thoughts higher than your thoughts†(Isa. 55:8-9).