Daniel 4 & 5

God loves me, and He reminds me that He is God and I'm not, therefore posting these Hearing God's Voice blogs is intimidating. Especially when getting a late start writing, how busy can a retired guy be? And staying at it too late.

So diligence requires an earlier start. I'll go right to the core of this. In our pastor's message Sunday he used a quote from Knowing God, by J.I. Packer. "He knows me....and no moment, therefore, when His care falters." I recalled, on Sunday, I have that book on my shelf. Home on Sunday afternoon was Birthday Central for our 4 year old grand daughter, so it was Monday before I could pull Knowing God from the shelf to search for that quote. I discovered something encouraging for me, in the full context of the pastor's quote (page 37) reads like this.

What matters supremely, therefore, is not, in the last analysis, the fact that I know God, but the larger fact which underlies it -- the fact the He knows me. I am graven on the palms of His hands.
I am never out of His mind. All my knowledge of Him depends on His sustained initiative in knowing me. I know Him because He first loved me; and there is no moment when His eye is off me, or His attention distracted from me, and no moment, therefore, when His care falters.

So, to personalize the above quote, see how it clarifies that it's about larger fact that He knows Joe Mileham as a friend, one who loves me; and there is no moment when His eye is off Joe, or His attention distracted from Joe, and no moment, therefore, when His care falters.

So I spent the mid-afternoon re-reading Knowing God through several chapters, conversing with the Father. In the Chapter The People who Know their God; some words jumped at me; ". . . and which formed the staple substance of all the disclosures about which God made to Daniel in chapters 2, 4,7,8,10, 11-12, is the truth that 'the most High ruled in the kingdom of men.’

What a comfort; '. . .the Most high rules in the kingdom of men.’ He knows me, and, still that gracious love for me. And please don’t forget that!

Joe Mileham