Devotional Song: … GO TO THIS LINK … Please take the time to take in a YouTube of the group Brian Free and Assurance singing … He Can Take It … poignantly singing of how we can take anything to our God, because He sees things we will never see and knows all.
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Highlight Verse[s]: Psalm 102:19-20 [NLT] … 19 Tell them [God’s people] the Lord looked down from his heavenly sanctuary. He looked down to earth from heaven 20 to hear the groans of the prisoners, to release those condemned to die.
… God sees things we cannot see.
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Highlight Passage [context]: Psalm 102:1-2, 18-28 [NLT]… USE THIS LINK …
… The psalmist sings of God’s perspective on our world.
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Reference Passage : … Proverbs 3:5-6 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… In trusting in God, in all situations, we must be willing to take all our cares to Him so that He can lead us.
Reference Passage : … Luke 9:23 [NLT] … 23 Then He said to the crowd, “If any of you wants to be My follower, you must give up your own way, take up your cross daily, and follow Me. …”
… Jesus wants to lead us; but we’ve got to be willing to follow Him.
Reference Passage : … 1Peter 5:7 [NLT] … 7 Give all your worries and cares to God, for he cares about you.
… Believing that God cares, we must bring our cares to Him … ALL our cares.
My Devotional Journal: Today's ODB author, Bill Crowder, used an illustration of the perspective one gets by being able to view life from a high perspective. The ODB author wrote: While in London, a friend arranged for my wife Marlene and me to visit the Sky Garden. On the top floor of a thirty-five-story building in London’s business district, the Sky Garden is a glass-encased platform filled with plants, trees, and flowers [see photo]. But the sky part captured our attention. We gazed down from a height of over 500 feet, admiring St. Paul’s Cathedral, the Tower of London, and more. Our views of the capital city were breathtaking—providing a helpful lesson on perspective.
Our God has a perfect perspective of everything we experience.
Using the author’s word picture from today’s ODB, wouldn’t you agree that we have a far clearer perspective on a city, like London, by seeing it from the heights of a structure like the Sky Garden rather than viewing life from down on the streets? And so, when we take that truth to heart, we have to see that God has a perspective on our lives - a heavenly perspective - that is infinitely higher and clearer than what we could ever see.
That’s why we read the psalmist, in the highlight passage, taking his dire cares to God, trusting that God sees and God knows and God cares about what we, His people, bring to him. We may have trouble seeing where we should go; but God always sees and knows what is best; and since Jesus desires that we, His disciples, deny ourselves and follow Him [see Luke 9:23], we should be willing to bring anything/everything to Him at all times (see 1Peter 5:7).
So, if we feel in the dark about something today - or any day - let’s do what the group Assurance sings in the linked song; … because no matter what we bring to our Lord, … “He can take it!”
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My THANKFULNESS: … Oh Lord, Jesus, thank You for hearing us anytime … anywhere!
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My Prayer Today: Abba Father, … King Jesus, … O Lord, I need Your eternal perspective today. Help me see my way. Shine Your light on my path. … Amen
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