I have been writing Scripture this month. I really enjoy doing this. It makes me concentrate and use parts of my brain that I don't always use when just reading Scripture. As I wrote this week, one of the verses was Isaiah 9:6 "For to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government shall be upon his shoulder, and his name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace." That night, I had a friend struggling and we talked about in the past month God had really disciplined them pretty harshly and woke them up to some areas they were lacking in. But that night they just needed comforting. The next night I was taking a bath and just talking to God and this verse came to my mind. Because I had wrote it and studied those specific names some as I wrote it, I was able to recall each name that Jesus is called in this verse. I am overwhelmed that God cares enough to be all things to us right when we need them. These names listed are only 4 out of many that Jesus is called throughout the Bible. These 4 are so diverse. So I began thanking God for each of these names. He is Wonderful. The Oxford dictionary says that wonderful means "inspiring delight, pleasure, or admiration; extremely good; marvelous." Jesus is all of those things, no other way to say it. He is my Counselor. While in that bathtub, I was telling Jesus all about my day and my friends and what I hoped happened in their lives and how I was thankful for people. And he listened. He just took the time with me and listened. He cares so very deeply. He is Mighty. He can execute justice in an instant. Bring natural disaster, take kingdoms to their knees, and create from nothing. And he is God of it all. They may not say so right now, but one day they will. He is Everlasting. It is so comforting to know he was here before anything else and he will be here until the end of time. He holds every second in the palm of his hand and is sovereign over it all. He is my Father. I have a wonderful earthly daddy who loves me so well. To know that God loves me so tenderly and even more than my earthly daddy is almost incomprehensible. That is an incredible love. God is the Prince of Peace. In the chaos, in the hard times, there is a peace that comes from him that is inexplainable and that ONLY comes from him and through him. It can be found no where else. This verse was one I have heard my whole life. I have said those names over and over. One of the drawbacks of being raised in church your whole life is that sometimes you lose your reverence for Scripture(I am ashamed to admit this, but it has been the case for me.). You hear things so many times and they lose their value sometimes. Thankfully God is so good to gently nudge us to see things we should have seen long ago and remind us exactly how important those portions of Scripture are. He takes off the veil from our eyes and hearts and draws us even closer. Maybe, like me, you needed to see these words a little clearer today. Maybe, like me, you needed to thank him for being these things in your life. Maybe, you need to add in some thank you's for some other thing that he is in your life right now. I am so grateful to serve a God who is personal and meets us right where we are to be what we need him to be to us. Jehovah, you are worthy.
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