May 16, 2024 … Seeing God’s Glory in Creation …
Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ... </b> …
… Please take the time to take in this song with lyrics Brian Doerksen singing … Creation Calls … Poignantly and powerfully singing of how we can look all around us and see God’s glory in His creation.
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Highlight Passage: … Psalms 8:1 [NLT] …
1 O Lord, our Lord, your majestic name fills the earth! Your glory is higher than the heavens.
… Young David seeing God’s glory by looking around into His creation.
Highlight Passage (in context) … Psalms 8 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… David, likely as a shepherd boy wrote of seeing God’s glory in the heavens above.
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Highlight Passage (in context) … Genesis 1:1-3 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… In the beginning God spoke the light from the darkness
Reference Passage: … Psalms 19:1, 139:13-14 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… King David sings of being God’s glory by looking into the night skies and seeing the wonders of God’s handiwork in the complexity of his own human body.
Reference Passage: … Ephesians 2:10 [NLT] …
10 For we are God’s masterpiece. He has created us anew in Christ Jesus, so we can do the good things he planned for us long ago..
… The Apostle Paul declares the truth of God’s glory by simply seeing mankind as God’s masterpiece of creation.
Reference Passage: … Colossians 1:15-17 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… Paul also shows fellow Christians that God created EVERYTHING for His glory.
Reference Passage: … Hebrews 11:3 [NLT] …
3 By faith we understand that the entire universe was formed at God’s command, that what we now see did not come from anything that can be seen.
… The author of Hebrews shows that it is our faith that allows us to see God’s glory in what we see in God’s creation.
My Devotional Journal: Today’s <b><i> Our Daily Bread</b></i> Author, Kenneth Peterson - AT THIS LINK wrote about a quote from Carl Sagan, who, in viewingt he first images from the James Webb telescope in July of 2022, … the Carina Nebula <b>(see photo)</b>, saying, “Somewhere, something incredible is waiting.”
And Sagan was right, even as he was wrong. True: … Humanity is looking forward to something wonderful which is coming, which is revealed in creation all around us, as the linked song declares. However, Carl Sagan, and any other “atheist,” sees the wonder of creation without seeing that it declares as the glory of God. I see the latter in the skies as revealed by the James Webb telescope or by simply holding out and seeing my own hand.
Fellow Christian … hold out your hand as you gaze into the night stars; … what do you see? I’m praying we all see God’s glory! But the glory yet to come is even more wonderful to contemplate.
My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh, Abba Father, thank You, King Jesus, … for revealing Yourself to me as I look around me in Your creation.
My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I pray. again today, that all reading here will join me today, … to look into Your creation, Lord, and to see Your handiwork everywhere. … Amen
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1 comment:
Amen!
Kjetil
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