Many, Lord my God,
are the wonders you have done,
the things you planned for us.
None can compare with you;
were I to speak and tell of your deeds,
they would be too many to declare.
Psalm 40:5 NIV
God Has Good Planned For You
In April 1921, Lt.-Col. James “Buster” Sutherland Brown, Canada’s director of military operations and intelligence, drafted the Canadian plan to invade the United States, known as Defence Scheme No. 1. While Brown is often described as a loose cannon, he was actually following orders from the chief of the general staff, who was concerned about an American invasion. After the First World War, America began to supplant Britain as the pre-eminent global power and so the concern that Canada might once again become a battleground for conflict between the two more powerful countries made some sense.
***
One of the most beautiful songs in the long and storied history of Christian hymnody beautifully captures the impossibility of expressing the love of God. It’s an old song, more recently updated by Mercy Me. The second verse says, “Could we with ink the ocean fill and were the skies of parchment made, were every stalk on earth a quill, and every man a scribe by trade, to write the love of God above would drain the ocean dry. Nor could the scroll contain the whole though stretched from sky to sky.” It is simply impossible to express the love of God with words, or voice, no matter how we try. The Psalmist puts this thought this way in Psalm 40:5: “Many, Lord my God, are the wonders you have done, the things you planned for us.
None can compare with you; were I to speak and tell of your deeds, they would be too many to declare.” The love and deeds of God for us are simply too great to express.
These have been words from the heart.
Bob Beasley