Devotional Song: … GO TO THIS LINK … Please take the time to take in a YouTube of images and lyrics from Gordon Mote singing … Don’t Let Me Miss the Glory … poignantly singing of how God’s creation tells of His sovereignty and glory.
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Highlight Verse[s]: Job 12:7, … 10 [NLT] … 7 “But now ask the beasts, and they will teach you; and the birds of the air, and they will tell you; …10 In Whose hand is the life of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind?
… Job knew that His God was in control … of EVERYTHING!!
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Highlight Passage [context]: Job 12:7-10 [NLT]… USE THIS LINK …
… Job answers the false teaching of his friends about God’s sovereignty with reference to the glory of God’s creation speaking to His handiwork in nature.
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Reference Passage : … Psalms 19:1, 97:6 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… God’s creation declares of His glory!!
Reference Passage : … Psalm 63:1-2 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… King David seeks the presence/power of His God in song.
Reference Passage : … Matthew 6:26, 10:29 [NLT] … 26 Look at the birds of the air, for they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they?
… 29 Are not two sparrows sold for a copper coin? And not one of them falls to the ground apart from your Father’s will.
… Jesus teaches of the reality of God’s sovereign control over all in His creation.
Reference Passage : … Romans 8:28 [NLT] … 28 And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose.
… In anything we see; … in anything we experience, … God is in control, and it is for our good.
My Devotional Journal: Today's ODB author, Alyson Kieda, used a personal observation about nature to illustrate how God is sovereign over all things in His creation. The ODB author writes … Our grandkids, enraptured, got a close-up look at a rescued bald eagle. They were even allowed to touch him. As the zoo volunteer told about the powerful bird perched on her arm, I was surprised to learn this male had a wingspan of about six and one-half feet, yet because of its hollow bones it weighed only about eight pounds.
This reminded me of the majestic eagle I had seen soaring above a lake, ready to swoop down and snatch its prey in its talons. And I pictured in my mind another big bird—the spindly legged blue heron I had spied standing motionless on the edge of a pond [see photo]. It was poised to dart its long beak into the water. They’re just two among the nearly 10,000 species of birds that can direct our thoughts to our Creator.
How often do we look at our circumstances and think … or feel … “WHY, GOD?” … somehow thinking that God is somehow out of control because our circumstances don’t match our expectations? But all we have to do, as prompted by the ODB author today, is look around, as is pointed out in the Scriptures above, to see that God is ALWAYS in control … of EVERYTHING in His creation.
And we should be singing, no matter what we’re confronting in life, what Gordon Mote sings in the linked song … “Lord, don’t let me miss Your glory!” Because, Romans 8:28 is truth; and GOD IS ALWAYS IN CONTROL OF EVERYTHING; and His creation screams out of His sovereignty.
So, today I pray that we look around us and see that God is on His throne and I don’t want to miss His glory.
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My THANKFULNESS: … Oh Abba Father, … thank You, Lord, for always being my God.
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My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, … King Jesus, … I’m praying Your words in Psalm 63:1-2 this morning and all mornings. … Amen
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