Devotional Song: … GO TO THIS LINK … Please take the time to take in a YouTube video from Brian Doerksen singing … Creation Calls … poignantly singing of the glory of God seen thru His wondrous creation. … And then ON TO THIS LINK to hear Gordon Mote, who is blind, singing of not wanting to miss God’s glory, … which speaks loudly to us who can see His glory in His creation.
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Highlight Verse[s]: Genesis 1:9-10 [NLT] … 9 Then God said, “Let the waters beneath the sky flow together into one place, so dry ground may appear.” And that is what happened. 10 God called the dry ground “land” and the waters “seas.” And God saw that it was good.
…God looked around at what He had created and He said, “It it good!”
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Highlight Passage [context]: Genesis 1:1-10 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… God created all and declared it “GOOD.”
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Reference Passage [NLT] : … Psalm 19:1 [NLT] … 1 The heavens proclaim the glory of God. The skies display His craftsmanship.
… We see God’s glory clearly in His creation.
Reference Passage [NLT] : … Psalm Psalm 147:4 [NLT] … 4 He counts the stars and calls them all by name.
… He did it all for His glory and for us.
Reference Passage [NLT] : … Psalm John 1:3 [NLT] … 3 He (God the Father) created everything through Him (Christ) and nothing was created except through Him.
… God created all we see and experience through our Lord, The Christ.
My Devotional Journal: Today's ODB author, Philip Yancey, related how the Apollo 8 astronauts viewing earth from near the moon (see photo) saw how wondrous was God’s creation. The ODB author wrote: While orbiting the moon in 1968, Apollo 8 astronaut Bill Anders described the crew’s close-up view of the moonscape. He called it “a foreboding horizon . . . a stark and unappetizing-looking place.” Then the crew took turns reading to a watching world from Genesis 1:1–10. After Commander Frank Borman finished verse 10, “And God saw that it was good,” he signed off with, “God bless all of you, all of you on the good Earth.” …
The Apollo 8 astronauts saw Earth as a brightly colored ball hanging alone in space. It looked at once awesomely beautiful and fragile. It looked like the view from Genesis 1.
It’s no wonder that looking at the moon up close with earth hanging on the horizon [see photo], these astronauts would see the glory of God and be inspired to quote from His word in Genesis 1 about God’s own creation. And Gordon Mote sings it so beautifully as linked above about us realizing just how great God saw His own glory when He looked around and saw what He, had created for Himself … and for the crowning glory of His creation (and that is mankind). He said it, and “IT IS GOOD,” isn’t it?
And I hope we take time today to revel in what our God has created for us.
My Prayer Today: Abba Father, … King Jesus, … Precious Spirit … Thank You, Lord, for what You have created for me and all who read here. … Amen
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