Our All Together God

“For from him and through him and to him are all things.”  Romans 11:36

After spending the past several weeks of summer focusing fully on my family, I sense the Spirit’s nudge to again pick up the pen, but I’m wondering what to say as I start back.  I considered simply resuming in Romans where we left off (and I surely plan on finishing that amazing book), but continuing without comment seemed a bit abrupt.  And then came last Sunday—communion Sunday at my church, and suddenly I knew what to write.

While the bread and juice were being passed, the pianist played a familiar tune—“Here I am to worship; here I am to bow down; here I am to say that You’re my God.  You’re altogether lovely, altogether worthy, altogether wonderful to me.”  Though I have sung those words many times before, that morning something struck me like never before—Our God has truly got it all together.

I certainly don’t.  On that day I was feeling especially uncertain and irregular—not sure of an opportunity and not confident in my ability.   I needed the reminder and reassurance that I don’t have to have it all together because God does.  He isn’t just altogether lovely, worthy, and wonderful; He is all together lovely, all together worthy, and all together wonderful.  God is in total control.  He has a perfect and purposeful plan.  He covers the past, commands the present, and is the constant of the future.  My future.  And your future.

We don’t ever have to have it all together, and, actually, we never will.  We aren’t intended to.  Our finite minds weren’t created with the capacity to consider and control all the variables of life, but we were made to trust the One who can—and does.  No situation scares Him.  No circumstance surprises Him.  God is never thrown off guard, taken back, or undecided, and the more we trust, the less we stress. 

 “From him, and through him, and to him are all things,” we are reminded in Romans 11:36, so on those days and in those times when you feel fragmented, floundering, or faithless, remember that the One who has it all together is the One who is holding you together (Col. 1:17).

Stand strong today day and sleep well tonight knowing that even when you don’t have it all together, our lovely, worthy, and wonderful God does. 

And He always will.