Devotional Song: … GO TO THIS LINK … Please take the time to take in a YouTube video of images and lyrics from the group Selah singing a contemporary version of the old hymn … How Deep The Father’s Love For Us … poignantly singing of God’s amazing love which is deeper than we can ever fathom.
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Highlight Verse[s]: Psalm 41:33-34 [NKJV] … 33 On earth there is nothing like him [the Leviathan of the deep], which is made without fear.34 He beholds every high thing; He is king over all the children of pride.”
… God’s picture of the vast greatness of our God’s creation, which we’ll never be able to tame or even understand.
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Highlight Passage [context]: Job 41-42 [NKJV]… USE THIS LINK …
… God shows Job that the power and depth of His love, like the depth of the oceans and the creatures therein, is so deep and so vast it will never be grasped by our finite minds. Therefore, as did Job, we must simply surrender and trust our God.
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Reference Passage : … Proverbs 3:5-6 [NKJV]… USE THIS LINK …
… Since we can never fully grasp the depth of our God, we must simply trust Him.
Reference Passage : … Psalm 104:15-16 [NKJV]… USE THIS LINK …
… The Psalmist sings of God’s greatness and the depth of His love with the picture of the mysterious Leviathan.
My Devotional Journal: Today's ODB author, Tim Gustafson, quotes a marine biologist about the vast oceans and how man will never fully grasp God’s creations in the deep. The ODB author wrote: “When you go to the deep sea, [see photo] every time you take a sample, you’ll find a new species,” says marine biologist Ward Appeltans. In one recent year, scientists identified 1,451 new types of undersea life. We simply don’t know the half of what’s down there.
When Job was trying to understand the “WHY” of all that had happened to him, God gave him just an inkling of His greatness and how Job - and any of us - will never fully grasp the Lord’s greatness, … His power, … nor His love. … yes, even if we were to encounter the likes of what Job had encountered.
In Chapter 41 of Job’s poetic journal (use link above), God used the picture of a great and mysterious creature of the deep, the Leviathan, to picture His power and His greatness. And then if you read on into Chapter 42 (please do so!), you see that Job finally just trusted God was God and that His love for Job would never fully be grasp. And with Job’s complete surrender and trust in God, the Lord restored all that Job had lost.
I pray today that we understand that we’ll never fully understand or grasp the greatness, the power, nor the depth of God’s love … just as Job couldn’t understand why God would allow what had happened to him. It’s as the group Selah sings in the linked song; and I pray that we simply surrender … and yield … and follow our God today, … yes, even when we don’t fully understand our Lord’s greatness or what we see unfolding in our midst.
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My THANKFULNESS: … Oh Lord, Jesus, thank You Your creation, so vast and so deep that I must simply trust You for what is to come.
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My Prayer Today: Abba Father, … King Jesus, … Precious Spirit … Your greatness, Lord, is too great for me to grasp; … therefore, I will trust You with all I cannot understand. … Amen
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