God at Work!

God at Work!

He guards the paths of justice; And He preserves the way of His saints (believers).
PROVERBS 2:8 AMP

God is introduced here with words we can relate to. He is presented as a guard; as one who knows and understands justice; one who keeps and preserves; and one who knows the paths those who belong to Him take, which makes him the Omniscient God. All of these attributes are important; they speak about the nature, power and wisdom of the One who calls us into a relationship with Him.

All who claim to know Him must walk in his path, and one of the attributes of that path is justice; not as defined by man but by God. He is the One who gives to man what He thinks is best, not necessarily as a function of right or entitlement, but of his grace and mercy. He does not allow to tamper with his laws and get away with it, but He is also slow to anger and is willing that all men repent and return to Him.

He knows those who truly know and follow Him. He is not deceived by outward piety at the expense of sincere worship. Man can be fooled by the outward; because God formed the entire human spectrum, He is not limited by it, and can rise above it to do much more than we can ask or imagine. He keeps His own, watching over their paths and making sure they end well.

Flip side: how do you explain the death of the righteous? Does it not seem that part of the preserving is to keep them from coming evil? They are his saints down here, and because His desire is to ensure that they remain so, his preservation may also require that when danger is ahead, He takes steps to bring them home. It is a hard sell, but who can fight His wisdom and power? Who can fully explain it? One sure thing: He is God; nothing can unseat Him. I am safe when I am in Him. No matter how life turns out, it ends well only when I remain in Him. His time of favour is here.