our precise God

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I confess I usually think in generalities when considering the week God Created all things. I think of His saying: "earth!", and there it was, "land-based animals!", and the world was full of them, "light!", and everything was bathed in it. I have considered the awesome detail HE used in making man. A number of Bible characters did also, such as David, Job, Jeremiah, etc. We sometimes stop and ponder the extremely precise way our God made our eyes, nerves, heart, brain, and all the other wonderful mechanics HE put into us. I was reminded, though, that God doesn't do anything without precise plans as I read the last few chapters of Job again. The Words God gives us are quite specific when HE asks Job: "Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Tell Me, if you have understanding. Who determined its measurements? Surely you know! Or who stretched the line upon it? To what were its foundations fastened? Or who laid its cornerstone, ---- (and when HE created the seas) When I fixed My limit for it, And set bars and doors; When I said, 'This far you may come, but no farther, And here your proud waves must stop. ----"Where is the way to the dwelling of light? And darkness, where is its place, That you may take it to its territory, That you may know the paths to its home. By what way is light diffused, Or the east wind scattered over the earth? "Who has divided a channel for the overflowing water, Or a path for the thunderbolt,---- Do you know the ordinances of the heavens? Can you set their dominion over the earth? (Job 38:4-6, 10-11, 19-20, 24-25)

God does not "jabber" like men do when talking about something we've done. HE does not "embellish" His accounts to make Himself look better. HE does not lie. HE only speaks the complete truth. Did you notice the architectural, building, and scientific terms HE used in the few verses above? The earth is not just spinning freely in space; HE laid a foundation and set it upon that. HE did not just make a vague "round thing"; HE determined very precise measurements for it and then made it. HE took His celestial "tape measure" and stretched its line over the earth HE made. HE anchored the earth by fastening it on its foundations. HE made limits (boundaries) for the vast oceans. HE established a dwelling for light and darkness, they are not just ethereal wisps floating around in creation, but have definitive shape and limits. From the largest to the tiniest element in all of creation, all have extremely precise definition and function, occupying a specific niche they were designed for. God is not an imprecise Being, but HE is precise down to, not just the hairs on your head, but to each of the smallest sub-microscopic elements of every hair on your head. HE is precise down to the smallest sub-microscopic element of the tiny cilia (those hair-like projections cells use to move around in the body) in the nose of a water buffalo in VietNam, precise down to the tiniest element of a grain of dust in a meteor flying through the very farthest reaches of space, and precise in every single element of everything in-between. There is no vagueness to the size, shape, or function of any of those things, or the things they help make up.

Why does this matter? It matters because it helps us to realize afresh the awesomeness of our precise God, and if our God is so precise, we must be reminded there is no vagueness in His plan for our lives as His children. Remember, For I know the thoughts (literally- plans, or intentions) that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end. (Jeremiah 29:11) God is so precise there is no room for error or accident. HE has made our foundations sure. What HE has purposed for you, will come about! What HE has promised you, will be! Our precise God has planned, measured, created, and is working all the components of our lives together. They come with, not a lifetime, but an eternal guarantee. The 1956 hit song, "Que sera, sera" (which, by the way, is incorrect grammar) which we translate as "whatever will be, will be", should be worded "quel Dieu dit soyez, soyez" (What God says will be, will be)!!!! Our God is perfectly precise.