Devotional Song: … GO TO THIS LINK … Please take the time to take in a YouTube video of images from the song written and performed by Gordon Mote… Don’t Let Me Miss the Glory … poignantly singing of how God gives us only a glimpse of His glory in the wonder/beauty of His creation all around us.
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Highlight Verse[s]: Job 38:18 [NLT] … 18 Do you realize the extent of the earth? Tell me about it if you know!.
… Job became blinded by his troubles to see God for Whom He really is.
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Highlight Passage [context]: Job 38:1-18 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… Thru his pain, Job had trouble seeing God’s glory and His majesty.
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Reference Passage : … Psalm 19:1 [NLT] … 1 The heavens proclaim the glory of God. The skies display His craftsmanship.
… God’s glory is all around us. All we must do is take it in and revel in the majesty of our God.
Reference Passage : … Romans 11:36 [NLT] … 36 For everything comes from Him and exists by His power and is intended for His glory.
… Paul expresses the reality of our finite minds trying to fully comprehend God’s glory which He shows us in/thru His creation. … WE CAN’T!!
Reference Passage : … Colossians 1:15-17 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK ...
… God, thru Paul shows the extent of God’s glory in His Son, our Lord and King, Who created all we see and experience for the glory of His Father.
My Devotional Journal: Today's ODB author, Mart DeHaan, used the work of a talented photographer who attempts to capture the glory of God in his photo art. The ODB author wrote: Some of us are inclined to look at the world and see only what’s wrong. DeWitt Jones is a National Geographic photographer who has used his profession to celebrate what’s right about the world. He waits and watches until a shaft of light or turn of perspective suddenly reveals a wonder that had been there all along. He uses his camera to find beauty in the most common faces of people and nature.
If readers here take the time to view the YouTube video of the linked song and take the time to google the photography of DeWitt Jones [see one example in the attached photo], you’ll see a bit of the realty that Job (see highlight passage) had trouble seeing thru the agony of his pain.
And so often that’s the case with us. isn’t it? We get so wrapped up in our own circumstances, which may be very challenging, and we lose sight of the wonder and glory of God, which truly can be seen in His creation … if we’d but look around and see it [see reference Scriptures].
So, … today, … as the old saying goes, … let’s take time to smell the roses, … and maybe go out and see a sunrise, … or watch closely as the sun shines or the rain falls on the spring flowers; … or just take in His love thru the eyes of a spouse, a child, or a friend.
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My THANKFULNESS: … Oh Lord, Jesus, thank You for showing us glimpses of Your glory, … radiating all around us.
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My Prayer Today: Abba Father, … King Jesus, … Precious Spirit … As Gordon Mote sings, … today … “Don’t Let Me Miss Your Gory!” … Amen
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