“I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.” (Psalm 139:14a)
The other day I wrote a meditation about remoteness, focusing on God not being too far from us to hear our faintest cry. Now, this morning our focus is on the fact that we are God built, but I still want to use the remoteness in a different sense, an analogical sense, using the remote controls devices found in the rooms where there is a TV in my house. Yes, I know what you are thinking. I too can remember when we had no remote except the youngest sibling that happened to be in the room who inherited the task of changing the channel, whether it took one hand or two to turn the dial. Thank God for the invention of the compact, constructed out of a hard plastic remote today and how they have got smaller and smarter. Did I just attribute a human characteristic to a non-living object?
Moving on, know that it does not matter which room of the house I am in, the remotes for the TVs are the same. They are all durable and they defy being destroyed by being dropped on hardwood floors. I know that is factual because numerous times, so many times that it is not even funny, I have caused the remote to fall on the floor. When On of my son’s visits, he waits until hears the remote hit the floor above where he and his family sleep on visits that are all too quick. I drop the remotes, not intentionally, instinctively, and not to interrupt anyone else. But when I do, the batteries roll every which way as if they are trying to play hide and seek while a peeking friend pretends to be blindfolded and finally says, “Ready or nor, here I come!” There is no pretending friend in the case of my fallen remotes. Consequently, finding them is like being on a painstaking Easter egg hunt that requires something I am always working on – patience! Back to the fall of the remote. The battery compartment cover seems to take on sprinter, world class speedster skills and strategically runs and hides in secluded places, places you would not even suspect it would have ended up. After a search requiring getting on my knees and sometimes fully prostrated, I find all that has crashed. Next, after putting things back the right way, the durable, plastic remotes function properly. You would have thought that they would have been destroyed, broken with no hope of a fix. But afterwhile, they appear, and everything is alright.
Thank God that we are God built and we have durability, similar to the remotes in the aforementioned paragraph. We may have some experiences in life that make it seem like the experiences would destroy us or keep us in an elevated sense of brokenness; experiences that seem helpless, hopeless, and as we were handed a situation where there is hardly the slightest possibility, perceived, positive chance of a fix. But we get right back up and keep pressing on. We can identify with the Apostle Paul who said, “We are pressed on every side by troubles, but we are not crushed. We are perplexed, but not driven to despair. (2 Corinthians 4:8-9 NLT)”
Do you remember what we pointed out the other day? Need a reminder. Well, repeating the point with paraphrased words, “God is always near and if you need help putting things back together, need any brokenness fixed, or your life needs to be put back in working order, go to Him for directions.” Praise God for making you and maturing you! Indeed, you are God built! Have a great Thursday! Love you! Be blessed!
Committed to the climb,
Mark L. King