Lyrics by Matt Redman –

We have nothing to give
That didn’t first come from Your hands
We have nothing to offer You
Which You did not provide
Every good, perfect gift comes from
Your kind and gracious heart
And all we do is give back to You
What always has been Yours
 
Lord, we’re breathing the breath
That You gave us to breathe
To worship You

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After reading those words this morning, one of the first things that sprang into my head was curiosity. Who among is not curious about something that we don’t understand? We want to know why things happen while other things don’t. Curiosity even takes a backseat to our desires to help others who are in need: what can we do to help…? Maybe I’ve thought about it before, but reading Redman’s words made me realize that God, too, is curious. Isn’t He? Shouldn’t He be? Yet, in the same breath I try to mesh curiosity with omnipotence…

Over the last several weeks Lori and I daily watched the Tour de France (except on Mondays because they’re rest days). It would be on early in the morning and most days I would miss the end of it on TV. But thanks to the internet I could know who one, where Lance finished, blah, blah, blah. I knew the outcome. But still I was curious to watch the stage that evening on TV to see what happened that led up to the outcome. So, I knew, but I was still curious. Granted, I didn’t know everything about the race. Perhaps a little closer to home, what drives us to watch movies that we have seen before? On some level we know, but are still curious. I don’t know.

I don’t know. I can’t quite get my arms around it, but I want to believe that my God is curious about me, even though He has numbered the hairs on my head, and has a glorious plan for my life. Even though He knows everything I will do and think and say, I want to believe that He is still curious. Maybe it is just because in my limited view of things, curiosity heightens and intensifies my personal relationships — and what relationship is more personal than between God and I?