The Quest of questionable questions By Mettabel Okulaja

One of the greatest foes I face every day in this world is the self-deprecating voice of human reasoning that seeks to rationalize my dreams away. The one that always comes with questions that seek to undermine my identity, my dreams, my hopes and my aspirations... that voice that insidiously insinuates itself into the portals of my contemplation, the one who comes whispering:


The Voice of Reason: “You don't seriously think that you can do this do you?

That voice to which when I then say “Oh yes I can!”

As the scene unfolds:

 The Voice of Reason: “Oh yeah? So HOW are you going to get it done?”

 My Heart: “I’ll find His way, and I’ll walk the path laid out for me.”

 The Voice of Reason: “Find the way to do exactly WHAT? … Seeing that you think you are so smart!”

 My Heart: “Then smart I must be, for God has birthed in me, that which makes my heart burn and that for which my heart beats… That’s WHAT I’ll do”.

 The Voice of Reason: “Your passion may burn, but WHEN will you find the time to do it? And HOW are you ever going to be able to swing it?”

My Heart: ”By God’s grace I will be strengthened, with His help I will prevail!”

The Voice of Reason: “Well I’m the voice of reason… and I ask: WHAT will you do if you crash and burn? And WHERE will you go if THEY scoff and scorn?”

My Heart: “Back to the One who has the master plan. Thankfully the draughtsman is never greater than his Chief Architect, back to the drawing board I’ll go!”

Then the final thrust aimed at decimation…

The Voice of Reason: ” Why do you even bother? Haven’t you failed enough times?”

My Heart: “I may have failed many times, but no rejoicing for you just yet, for I have learned through The Word and Life that if I fall, I’ll rise again strengthened from within. Just so, you know, make no mistake, and you mark my words, THIS time I win, for He works in me to WILL and to DO. By this, I am assured, and I am fully persuaded that all that has been, was part of his plan; that for THIS cause do all my cells exist!”

Away with you for this I surely know, that…

… He knows the way that I take; When He has tested me, I shall come forth as gold.

Job 23:10

So… Do not rejoice over me, my enemy; When I fall, I will arise; When I sit in darkness, The Lord will be a light to me.

Micah 7:8

For this I know…

I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.

Philippians 4:13

The end, for now…



© AdePero Mettabel O 03/27/13.

Indescribable...

I was watching a YouTube video on Quantum Mechanics, and the String Theory and these scriptures started coming to mind. I could not help but be awed by GOD!

He is indeed as Chris Tomlin sang:
Indescribable, uncontainable,
You placed the stars in the sky and You know them by name.
You are amazing God
All powerful, untameable,
Awestruck we fall to our knees as we humbly proclaim
You are amazing God

The Word testifies of our God, who is indescribably massive, awesome, holy, powerful, uncontainable by matter, time or space. Dwelling in pure light that illuminates our minuscule world for moments in time. How galactically omnipotent you are oh GOD! Above all things, yet around and in all things great and small, seen and unseen, past, present and future, fused and broken down, concealed and revealed, HOW GREAT THOU ART!!!






WORDS ARE NOT ENOUGH, YET THEY ARE ALL WE HAVE, TO MAGNIFY AND EXALT YOU AS GOD!

Even this You understand:
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So today all my uncertainties, my heart's cries, my incoherency, my thoughts, my plans, my un-plans, and my life, I submit to your Sovereignty, my most supreme and excellent GOD!
Oh Lord my God, YAHWEH is your name, and will always be Your name!

Psalm 8:3-6
3
When I consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers,
The moon and the stars, which You have ordained,
4
What is man that You are mindful of him,
And the son of man that You visit him?
5
For You have made him a little lower than the angels,[a]
And You have crowned him with glory and honor.
6
You have made him to have dominion over the works of Your hands;
You have put all things under his feet,

Hebrews 11:3
3 By faith we understand that the WORLDS were framed by the word of God, so that the things which are seen were not made of things which are visible.

2 Corinthians 4:18
18 while we do not look at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporary, but the things which are not seen are eternal.

Colossians 1:15-16
15 He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. 16 For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through Him and for Him.

John 1:1-3
1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was in the beginning with God. 3 All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made.

Job 38:1-7
1
Then the Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said:
2
“Who is this who darkens counsel
By words without knowledge?
3
Now prepare yourself like a man;
I will question you, and you shall answer Me.
4
“Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth?
Tell Me, if you have understanding.
5
Who determined its measurements?
Surely you know!
Or who stretched the line upon it?
6
To what were its foundations fastened?
Or who laid its cornerstone,
7
When the morning stars sang together,
And all the sons of God shouted for joy?

Colossians 1:16-17
16 For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through Him and for Him. 17 And He is before all things, and in Him all things consist.