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Tuesday, August 24, 2021

We sure have a lot of interesting traffic in front of our home including this tractor hauling a trailer load of freshly picked tomatoes passing by yesterday.

"The Blessing Of Unlimited"

Message summary: Compared to God our compassion, understanding and power is extremely limited!

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"Have mercy, God, according to Your gracious love, according to Your unlimited compassion, erase my transgressions" (Psalm 51:1). "Great is our Lord, and abundant in power; His understanding is unlimited" (Psalm 147:5). "Then, with the eyes of your hearts enlightened, you will know the confidence that is produced by God having called you, the rich glory that is His inheritance among the saints, and the unlimited greatness of His power for us who believe, according to the working of His mighty strength, which He brought about in the Messiah when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly realm" (Ephesians 1:18-20).

QR codes have become ubiquitous. Our church places one on the screen before each service on Sunday; scan the code and it opens to information for visitors. We've seen them in some pretty unusual places such as a billboard along a busy highway. Sure seems like this could lead to distracted driving. Hopefully drivers pull over to scan the code!

A QR code is an abbreviation for Quick Response Code, a two-dimensional code that can encrypt several thousand characters. It can store information about the product the code is attached to or link to a destination URL.

The QR code system was invented in 1994 by Masahiro Hara from the Japanese company Denso Wave. The initial purpose was to track vehicles during manufacturing designed to allow high-speed component scanning. (Wikipedia)

I made my first QR code to link to our Daily Encouragement site about ten years ago and it still works. Of course I have no idea how QR codes work but I am smart in other ways! (At least I hope I am!))

But what really amazes me is how the little block can have enough variation to identify or link to so many different things and websites. I read that the complexity of a QR code means there are practically unlimited numbers of possible permutations that everyone on earth can assign a unique QR code to every photo, link, and product ever created, and we’d never run out.

Well, you can check every Bible version and you won't find a "QR code" in the Bible but the unlimited capabilities of the QR code gave me pause in consideration of God's unlimited capabilities, so today let us consider just three unlimited capabilities of God.

1) God's Unlimited Compassion: "Have mercy, God, according to Your gracious love, according to Your unlimited compassion, erase my transgressions" (Psalm 51:1).

2) God's Unlimited Understanding: "Great is our Lord, and abundant in power; His understanding is unlimited" (Psalm 147:5).

3) God's Unlimited Power: "Then, with the eyes of your hearts enlightened, you will know the confidence that is produced by God having called you, the rich glory that is His inheritance among the saints, and the unlimited greatness of His power for us who believe, according to the working of His mighty strength, which He brought about in the Messiah when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly realm" (Ephesians 1:18-20).

Comparatively even the most devoted believer's compassion, understanding and power is extremely limited.

Let us hear this Word from the Lord:

"This is what the Lord says:

'Let not the wise boast of their wisdom or the strong boast of their strength or the rich boast of their riches, but let the one who boasts boast about this: that they have the understanding to know me, that I am the Lord, who exercises kindness, justice and righteousness on earth, for in these I delight,' declares the Lord" (Jeremiah 9:23,24).

Be encouraged today, (Hebrews 3:13)

Stephen & Brooksyne Weber

Daily prayer: Father help us to remember the only boasting that really matters is that we truly know You and understand that You are the Lord who is just, righteous full of understanding and abundant in mercy! Wisdom, power, strength, and riches are providential blessings that we do not deserve, but gifts that You distribute with delight. May we ever be mindful and grateful for Your unlimited virtues and seek to imitate them in our day to day interaction with others in Jesus' name we pray. Amen.

Today's Suggested Music and Supplemental Resources

"Word Of God Speak" Video MercyMe

"Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus" Video The Glorious Christ Live

"The Great I Am" Video Jared Anderson

Piercing Word is a local ministry based here in Lancaster County which stresses Scripture memorization. The director, Aaron House, was recently featured on Haven Today, a national radio ministry. We have heard many presentations by this group over the years and they do an outstanding job of reciting and portraying the Scriptures, word perfect, as translated by the ESV!

Today's consideration of QR codes is in part prompted by the cards we ordered that included a QR code linking to Daily Encouragement Net. In the course of our chaplaincy we have distributed thousands of these cards over the years. We have normally placed a calendar on the back but on this one we placed "The Four Spiritual Laws".

Let me encourage our readers to consider using these cards as a personal form of witness, especially if you have a ministry blog or website. It's relatively inexpensive to have the cards made and you can use the back of the card as a tract. We have used this source for ordering our business cards for many years: Gotprint.com (This is not an affiliate link!)

Finally today:

St-Janiver de Mirabel by Air Fest set a new record for the biggest QR code.

It can only be scanned from 1,000 feet above the ground!

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