Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ... Please take the time to take in a YouTube video of song and lyrics from Brian Doerksen singing … Creation Calls … worshipfully and poignantly singing of the glory of God’s creation and what it says to us about our Lord’s greatness.
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Highlight Verse[s]: Job 38:4 [NLT] ... 4 “Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Tell me, if you know so much
… God shows Job - and us - that He, God, controls the foundations of this world.
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Highlight Passage [context]: Job 38:4-11 [NLT] ... USE THIS LINK ...
… God shows Job that his inquiries as to why Job was stricken are foolish … that HE, God, is in control of EVERYTHING.
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Reference Passage : … Psalm 19:1-4 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… The heavens declare the greatness and glory of God.
Reference Passage : … Isaiah 55:8-9 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… God teaches, thru Isaiah, that here are just some things which God has created or allowed to be created that will never completely understood this side of heaven.
Reference Passage : … Luke 12:1-7 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… Jesus teaches His followers about how God values ALL of His creation, so we need not fear anything.
Reference Passage : … Romans 8:28 [NLT] … 28 And we know that God causes everything to work together for the good of those who love God and are called according to his purpose for them.
… God, thru Paul, promises that EVERYTHING which we Christians experiences is for our good; so, why would we fear anything.
My Devotional Journal: Today's ODB author, Remi Oyedele, uses the glory of creation to show how we need not fear what transpires in this world because God is in total control of what He created. … The ODB author wrote: Scientists know our planet is precisely the right distance from the sun to benefit from its heat. A little closer and all the water would evaporate, as on Venus. Only a bit farther and everything would freeze like it does on Mars. Earth is also just the right size to generate the right amount of gravity. Less would make everything weightlessly sterile like our moon, while more gravity would trap poisonous gases that suffocate life as on Jupiter.
Interesting that we know so much about how perfectly earth was created to sustain what we see on this planet (see linked song); but yet so many of us are fearful of what is going on in the world or there are so many who deny that there had to be Creator which cared about His creation to have all of His world under His watch care.
Yes, we humans desire to understand and explain everything under the sun; but when will we understand, as Job finally did (see highlight passage), that God is God and he is [or we are] not. That’s why Jesus, the God-man, declared that God knows every hair on our heads and certainly values us more the sparrows which fly about (see Luke 12 passage). And 700+ years before Christ came to show us the Creator in the flesh, Isaiah declared, for God, that there are just some things we will never completely understand this side of heaven (see Is. 55:8-9); so, … why be fearful?
So, I pray that, as we move in to the new year/decade, we just acknowledge that God created all, and controls His creation for His glory and our well being as His family (see Rom. 8:28); and therefore, … we need not fear for anything.
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My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh Abba Father, ... thank You, Lord, … for Your glorious creation, in which I can see and worship You.
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My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... I pray, Lord, that all reading here will join me today, to praise our God for what He has created … for our good and His glory. … Amen
Blogger Note: Everyday during this year, my daily devotional blogs are influenced by the reading and study of the online devotional blog entitled “Our Daily Bread,” distributed online via email by RBC Ministries. If you GO TO THIS LINK on the date of my blog, you can read/study the ODB blogs; or you can subscribe to the blog via email at that site.</ span>
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