March 19

Those who are in the world and do not own Christ as their Savior, follow their whimsies. Did I say own Christ? Yes! Of course! Come, buy and eat without cost! Yes, but what do most people rather do? Well, they live out their whimsies.

Of Our Arrogance and Folly —

Of God, the Psalmist wrote, “If I were hungry, I would not tell you; for the world is Mine and all its fullness.” Ps. 50:12

It is like sinful men to take advantage of any weakness that they perceived in God to exalt themselves. God in His wisdom knew this and chastised them for saying that if He were hungry, He wouldn’t tell them. Why? Everything is His! The fact that He uses the word ‘if’ as a taunt would lead us to believe the unrepentant sinner is only tolerated for the benefit of the elect.

God is self-sufficient! He is all powerful and holy! Oh, to think that His creation spans multi-dimensions; upwards to ten! And His dwelling is above that! He dwells where time does not! And what do we say to ourselves? Confined to live in just three of ten dimensions, we say we are gods? Apart from His care and provision, we are nothing — soap scum on the bottom of His basin!

Really? We presume to be gods? Man’s present knowledge could be multiplied by a factor of 100^1,000,000 for that matter, and what? Could we sit where He sits? Could we drink of His wine and cut of His meat? Could we add anything to His table that He didn’t prepare long before the heavens existed?

Oh, why does God so long suffer our arrogance and folly? “He who sits in the heavens shall laugh; The Lord shall hold them in derision.” (Ps. 2:4) Yes, we are laughable, and we would continue to be so if God remained forever humored by us, but sadly, the day will come. He has even prepared that day, and on that day, all will be rolled out as a scroll and read in the presence of His heavenly host and children: ‘Depart from Me—you, worker of iniquity. I never knew you.

March 20

Whimsies, indeed. As much as man believes he knows, the honest man will confess he is ignorant — maybe not in the definition of things — but in the substance of things.

Of Darwin, Knowledge, and God’s Ways —

I once either heard or read that Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution was based on a simple cell structure and development. Of course, Darwin didn’t have the electron microscopes that we have today. If he did, some say that Darwin might have walked away from publishing his theory when he discovered the vastness of God’s creation in its infinitesimal.

Even as human knowledge and science are progressive, so is God’s illumination of His existence and creation. The fact that man came upon some eternal truth does not speak of man’s progressive intelligence but of our laughable ignorance! One would think that the greatness of God’s creation, and all that we don’t know, would humble us. Unfortunately, that is not the case. Men in their sin are usurpers of God’s glory and take credit for their inventions, which are based on God’s physics that He currently preserves in His hand.

The more we learn doesn’t lessen God. No, in fact, we should stand in awe. How truly insignificant we are; how meaningless our achievements and results. We… mankind was the original spiritual hypothesis of the Godhead. Though our failure was foreknown and accepted, God revealed to us His manifest wisdom, mercy, and justice through the birth, life, death, burial and resurrection of His Son.

“For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways are not your ways, And My thoughts are higher than your thoughts.” Isaiah 55:9

March 21

Yes, Lord, in Your whimsy give us even Your crumbs! Let us push aside all of the world’s delicacies. I would gladly walk away from a six-course elegant, candlelit meal; if it meant not sitting at Your banquet table where the Sun of Righteousness will shine and heavenly manna is served in abundance.

Of Ourselves, Our Will and Rejecting Crumbs —

We are told not to think of ourselves more highly than we ought to think. So, what ought we think of ourselves when our will goes against; as Balaam, the commands of God? In his book, The Sincere Convert and The Sound Believer, the Reverend Thomas Shepard wrote (and I paraphrase):

“Remember how good the Lord’s will is even when it crosses yours. He shall have infinite glory by denying yours if it is in conflict with His own. He shall gain His glory; even though you may lose your peace and quiet over that ‘good’ that your foolish, sinful will would desire by His hand. Blessed be his name; let God live, but let men die and perish that He may be exalted above vile man.”

Beloved, we are an arrogant and prideful people; deserving nothing. We are like beggars going to a home and asking for bread. When offered a crumb, we refuse it and call the Master of the house a miser when it was only offered as a test of our humility. What you did not know is the Master was ready to receive you as a son, but your rejection of the crumb proved otherwise. How sad it is that many do not see that the crumbs of God are as flakes of gold that are as numerous as the stars in the heavens, and when gathered, shall sparkle with unbelievable light!

This ends this triplet ‘Of Our Whimsies.’ Concluding this, may we all say with confidence: ‘Thy Kingdom Come.’