Psalm 18:32
32 It is God ['el] that girdeth ['azar] me with strength, [chayil]
and maketh [nathan] my way [derek] perfect. [tamiym] KJV-Interlinear
32 The
God who girds me with strength, And makes my way blameless? NASB
Gird, ‘azar,’ means to
bind up, to strap on, to secure as a belt secures, compass, about as in round
about or all around.
Strength, ‘chayil,’ means
a force, an army, valor, wealth, confidence, ability.
Perfect, ‘tamiym,’ means
entire, complete, without blemish, sound, whole.
God, ‘el,’ is a reference
to the almighty, with emphasis on power, and ability and wherewithal.
So, it is God, all three
members of the Trinity, that accomplish anything and everything for each and
every human being.
God binds us up with
power, with completeness, making us whole.
It is God who provides the means of our spiritual growth, which is in
fact the process of bringing our lives to a state of completeness. All of this through doctrine.
It is God who takes care of
all of the little things, all of the big things, all things all around us in
life, that create a state of meaning and purpose and fulfillment within our
very essence.
It is never the
individual who presumes that he or she is a self-made person. For none of us
can make ourselves into anything that God does not will.
He provided us with life,
with our physical and mental makeup. It
is God who assigned us our individual talents or intellect, or place in
society.
It is God who designed
and defined the circumstances of our life and provides the work-around for
everything that we do, especially when we mess things up.
If God did not make you,
you are not made. If God did not promote
you, you are not promoted. If God did
not place you, you are not placed. If
God did not do anything with regard to you, you are nothing.
No one is self-made, no
one can promote themselves, no one can claim any success that they might achieve,
no one can claim anything due to their own effort. For even mans effort is
courtesy of the grace of God.
Apart from God, your
present and future are empty. Even your
disregard of God, does not remove Him from your life. God is gracious even in
the face of the insult of rejection.
But when you die, and we will
all die or leave this world sooner or later, then it will be too late to
realize life's errors and want to do them over.
You have now, to put your
arrogance in check and open up your life to instruction, so that God, not you,
can build you into something phenomenal.
Something that you can never do yourself.
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