I hope the A words in last week’s post bolstered your confidence and shriveled your concerns. Today’s thoughts should further seal the holes in our buckets—and in the light of current world news, we need to stop up the leaks and walk in faith. Contemplating God’s attributes will shift our focus from the chaos to the King. “Give me a B!”
- Bountiful. God is rich—in mercy, grace, provision. I cannot describe the magnitude of His bounty, nor can I do justice to the benevolence of His heart in sharing His bounty with us. His provision and His generosity is boundless. I know this paragraph is filled with redundant thoughts, but in a budgetary world where we scrape, earn, and calculate our income and outgo, God’s bounty is limitless. He is Bountiful.
We have all benefited from the rich blessings he brought to us—blessing upon blessing heaped upon us! John 1:16 (TLB)
- Brilliant. When we say someone is brilliant we are usually referring to their mind. Although God’s mind is brilliant, we fall short if we stop there. He is altogether brilliant. His appearance is brilliant. Selah. His purposes and plans, His working and weaving, His love and encompassing care—Brilliant!
And we all, who with unveiled faces contemplate the Lord’s glory, are being transformed into his image with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit. 2 Corinthians 3:18
- Bold. I love this—I need this. I need to realize God is bold to confront His enemies, to rescue us from trouble, to say, “Enough” and “No more.” We may tremble but God does not cower in the face of brazen attacks on Israel. In this, and in every confrontation of evil, God is Bold.
When I called, you answered me; you made me bold and stouthearted. Psalm 138:3
*You may want to think about these words as well: Beautiful, the Blesser, Bread-of-Life, Builder.
BARBARA HIGBY 