While I was at home for Christmas break my daddy took me on a plane ride… He’s in the process of learning to fly and wants to get his pilot’s license on his birthday this month. It was my first time to fly with my dad. He’s been getting lessons for about a year now and even Ryan has already flown with him (Ryan was actually the very first person to fly with my dad…)
While we were flying from Houston to Benham, in ridiculous weather that we shouldn’t have flown in, I looked down and watched… life, that is of course after the plane stopped jumping up and down. It was so peaceful. Even the traffic on the main highways, that I know was probably not pleasant for the people in it nor was it peaceful, but from where I was sitting it was perfect. Random houses had Christmas lights, you could see other planes in the distance getting ready to bring friends and family to loved ones for Christmas, and and and… I don’t know…. something about being so far away yet so close and seeing all the little homes and cars and cities and people (no I couldn’t see them from the plane but I know they were there) it brought a peace.
You know what I loved about it? I still don’t know how big my God is. I don’t think I’ll ever be able to understand that… and I’m ok with that. I feel so un-at-peace and yet knowing how small and helpless I am brings me peace. Normally feeling small and unable makes me feel self-conscious and kind of unworthy. Oh, no. That is not our God, and He doesn’t want me to feel that way and yet He made me unable and small… why?
I started a new Bible study. It helps you learn how to pray the names of God. To be honest I was a good “prayer warrior” type person when I was younger and though I do talk to my Daddy often it’s either too casual or too selfish. Also I’ve always wanted to study the names of God. Have you ever wondered why there was so many? God’s names have to do with the personality of God and the actions He has done. The first name was Elohim.
Elohim: e-lo-heem; noun
1. Hebrew name of God used in the Old Testament
2. Means God the Creator
There was my answer. God is my Creator. He holds me, and everything else, in His calm, strong, and assuring hands… Although I may be small and weak and even unable at times, it’s because of those times that I can feel Him. Feel His hands. Feel Him through His creation and love. I feel Him through His Peace. Because of this peace, because of His hand, because of His strenth… I can do anything. Not me, but Him through me.
Have you not known? Have you not heard? The LORD is the everlasting God,
the Creator of the ends of the earth.
He does not faint or grow weary;
His understanding is unsearchable.
He gives power to the faint,
and to Him who has no might He increases strength.
Even youths shall faint and be weary,
and young men shall fall exhausted;
but they who wait for the LORD shall renew their strength;
they shall mount up with wings like eagles;
they shall run and not be weary;
they shall walk and not faint.
Isaiah 40:28-31
