January 3, 2024… All Our Hope in God’s Creation

January 3, 2024…  All Our Hope in God’s Creation 

Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ...   Please take the time to take in this song with lyrics from Brian Doerksen singing … Creation Calls …  Poignantly, yet powerfully singing of how we we see the power of our omnipotent God as we look around to see what He has created.   

Do we see our God in His creation? ... 

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Highlight Passage: …  Psalms 33:22  [NLT] … 

22 Let Your unfailing love surround us, for our hope is in YOU alone. 

… The Psalmist charges fellow believers to put all our hope in The one-and-only God, Who created all that we see.        

Highlight Passage (in context): … Psalms 33:6-9, 12-22  … USE THIS LINK … 

… King David, likely the Psalmist in Psalm 33, extols God’s greatness, calling believers to put all their (our) hope in Him.                                        

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Reference Passage: … Genesis 1:31a (NLT] … 

31 Then God look over all He had made, and He saw that is was very God. …  

…God, thru the Prophet Moses, declares that all that He created that we see in nature was VERY GOOD.  

Reference Passage: … Psalm 19:1 (NLT] … 

1 The heavens proclaim the glory of God.  The skies display His craftsman’s ship.  …  

… King David, again in song, proclaims the glory of God in all that we see around us.  

Reference Passage: … Isaiah 55:12-13 (NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

…God, thru the Prophet Isaiah, shows believers that our hope is in God, Who promises to recreate all the thorns in our lives to trees which sing of God’s glory.    

Reference Passage: … Matthew 6:26 (NLT] … 

26 Look at the birds. They don’t plant or harvest or store food in barns, for your heavenly Father feeds them. And aren’t you far more valuable to him than they are?

…Jesus, in His sermon on the mount, teaches His followers (and us) that our hope is in God, Who feeds the birds, … and see mankind as far more valuable that the birds He created.          

Reference Passage: … Romans 1:20 (NLT] … 

20 For ever since the world was created, people have seen the earth and sky. Through everything God made, they can clearly see His invisible qualities—His eternal power and divine nature. So they have no excuse for not knowing God.  

…The Apostle Paul reasons that mankind cannot claim not to know God because we see Him when that (we) see Him when we look around to see all He created. 

        

My Devotional Journal: Today’s Our Daily Bread Author , Xochitl Dixon -  AT THIS LINK -  who wrote about oceanographer, Sylvia Earl, who noted and studied the deterioration of many of the coral reefs in the oceans, and went on to found a group of scientists who are working to restore what they call, “hope spots,” which they believe are critical - if restored - to the health of the oceans and the planet.     

But truth be told, what this darkening world needs is for ALL to see, as did King David in his psalms, and the Prophets of old, and most certainly Jesus, Who taught, as did the Apostle Paul all of whom observed (see the Scriptures above) … by just looking around to see God’s creation, … that all of our hope comes icy seeing God and having faith in God, Who created all we see around us.  

I see His glory, as Brian Doerksen sings in the linked song, … do you as well?  And are we doing all we can to honor our Lord, as our Creator, by being stewards of His planet?      

My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh, Abba Father, thank You, King Jesus, … for charging me and giving me (and us) to be a steward of Your creation.       

My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I pray. again today, that all reading here will join me, … to do all we can to see and honor You, Lord, by being stewards of Your creation.   … Amen  

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