None like God

My wife and I are getting ready to move to Louisville. Honestly, I'm scared...was scared. We're moving in four and a half weeks; we haven't found a church (i.e. no employment), we haven't found a place to live, and she's expecting our first child.

I sat in our living room thinking about these cares and concerns, thinking about 1 Peter 5.6-7, and knowing that I needed to humble myself before God and cast my cares on Him. But I couldn't find the words to pray, so I just stared out the window. Then I remembered George Müller's advice. Instead of praying, fumbling around for words that aren't there, read. Pick up God's word and read. I did: Galatians 4 and 5, John 1, James 5. I searched and searched for something to give me hope. Finally, disappointedly placing my Bible on the floor I noticed our hymnal. After humming through several hymns, I turned to "How Great Thou Art."

O Lord my God, when I in awesome wonder, consider all the worlds Thy Hands have made; I see the stars, I hear the rolling thunder, Thy power throughout the universe displayed.

When through the woods, and forest glades I wander, and hear the birds sing sweetly in the trees. When I look down, from lofty mountain grandeur and see the brook, and feel the gentle breeze.

And when I think, that God, His Son not sparing; sent Him to die, I scarce can take it in; that on the Cross, my burden gladly bearing, He bled and died to take away my sin.

When Christ shall come, with shout of acclamation, and take me home, what joy shall fill my heart. Then I shall bow, in humble adoration, and then proclaim: "My God, how great Thou art!"

Then sings my soul, My Saviour God, to Thee, how great Thou art, how great Thou art. Then sings my soul, my Saviour God, to Thee, how great Thou art, how great Thou art!

Tears formed in the corners of my eyes as I finished. How foolish of me to forget that the great God, the creator of the universe and my gracious Savior, is the lover of my soul. But God wasn't done speaking. There was a verse noted at the top of the hymn: Deuteronomy 33:26. I picked up my Bible and read, "There is none like God, O Jeshurun, who rides through the heavens to your help, through the skies in his majesty. The eternal God is your dwelling place, and underneath are the everlasting arms."

I wept.

He is God; we are in Him. He is holding our little family. That is enough for me.