What God doesn’t do
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by Jane Mueller
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How precious are your thoughts about me, O God. They cannot be numbered! I can’t even count them; they outnumber the grains of sand! (Psalm 139:17,18a)
Read Psalm 139:1-18
God does infinitely more than we can possibly imagine. But what doesn’t he do?
I’ve been Rick Roll’d on more occasions than I care to remember, mainly due to an over-zealous cousin. (Shout out to Wayne.) Rick Rolling involves tricking someone into listening to Rick Astley’s 1980’s hit Never Gonna Give You Up. It usually involves a ‘bait and switch’ strategy, where the prankster shares a website, claiming it is something of interest to the non-suspecting victim. When the victim clicks the link, they see Astley’s music video and – ta-da! – they’ve been Rick Roll’d.
The memes doing the rounds for Rick Astley’s Never Gonna Give You Up are countless. One meme my cousin fervently reminds me of, provides a check-list of all the things Rick would never do: give you up, let you down, run around and desert you, make you cry, say goodbye, tell a lie, hurt you. If you know the song, you’ll appreciate the meme.
What if God was the lyricist of Never Gonna Give You Up? Never gonna give you up (Deuteronomy 31:8), let you down (Isaiah 41:10), run around and desert you (Deuteronomy 31:6), make you cry (Zephaniah 3:17), say goodbye (Matthew 28:20), tell a lie (Psalm 89:34), hurt you (Genesis 9:11).
God’s version of the song would probably be longer than a standard radio version because he has so many things to add to the check-list. For example, never gonna reject you (Job 8:20), stop thinking about you (Psalm 139:17-18), stop loving you (Jeremiah 31:3).
Heavenly Father, you never give us up, let us down or desert us. Your love for us is unfathomable. Teach us to reflect your love in our relationships with others, by never giving up on them and never abandoning them. Amen.
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