Devotional Song: … GO TO THIS LINK … Please take the time to take in YouTube images and lyrics from Gordon Mote singing his song … Don’t Let Me Miss The Glory … poignantly singing of how we, as Christians, need to look around us daily and take in God’s glory from His creation.
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Highlight Verse[s]: Job 37:14 [NLT] … 14 “Listen to this, O Job; Stand still and consider the wondrous works of God.
… Elihu, Job’s young apologist, reflects on how we can often miss the glory of God all around us in Creation when we’re in the midst of personal pain - as was Job.
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Highlight Passage [context]: Job 37:14-34 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… One of Job’s friends helped him to remember to look past the agony to see God’s glory in creation.
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Reference Passage : … Isaiah 26:3 [NLT] … 3 You will keep in perfect peace all who trust in You, all whose thoughts are fixed on You!
… We so often take our mind’s eye off of God and lose His peace by focusing on our selves.
Reference Passage : … Isaiah 55:8-9 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… When we’re mired in personal problems, we can easily forget or miss the truth that God’s ways are so difficult to see/understand.
Reference Passage : … Romans 8:28 [NLT] … 28 And we know that God causes everything to work together for the good of those who love God and are called according to his purpose for them.
… So easy to miss God’s glory and see His grace when we’re wrapped in personal problems.
Reference Passage : … Hebrews 13:5-6 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… God, in this passage, promises He will never leave us or forsake us when we’re down or depressed. But do we trust Him?
My Devotional Journal: Today's ODB author, Julie Schwab, uses a personal reflection to illustrate how we can miss the glory of God, ever before us in creation, especially when we get wrapped up in our daily cares/concerns. The ODB author writes … “What’s a diatom?” I asked my friend. I was leaning over her shoulder looking at pictures on her cell phone she had taken through a microscope. [see photo]
“Oh, it’s like algae, but it’s harder to see. Sometimes you need a drop of oil on the lens or they have to be dead to see them,” she explained. I sat amazed as she scrolled through the pictures. I couldn’t stop thinking about the intricate detail God put into life that we can only see with a microscope!
God’s creation and works are endless. In the book of Job, one of Job’s friends, Elihu, points this out to Job as he struggles through his loss.
Reflecting on God’s glory thru the “microscope” of God’s word in Job’s journal is a good way to keep the greatness of God in perspective as we deal with the everyday cares and concerns of life. Job almost lost his faith perspective as he dealt with all of the pain/agony of his personal loss. And tho his friends led him somewhat astray with their faulty ideas about God’s justice, one of those, Elihu, the youngest of Job’s four friends, helped Job to see that even what Job was going thru was evidence of God’s glory (see highlight passage).
And we too need to look past the fogginess of our trials and troubles; and do all we can, as Gordon Mote sings in the linked song, to look around and take in God’s glory in creation, … reminding us of God’s truth in the reference scriptures above.
And that’s why I come here everyday, taking up the microscope of truth, which is God’s word, to let God’s Spirit open my eyes to His glory … much like the ODB author was able to see that evidence by viewing diatoms thru a real microscope.
So, I pray that all reading with me here stop and recognize that any/all things we see or experience today help us to see the glory of our God.
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My THANKFULNESS: … Oh Abba Father, … thank You, Lord, … for showing us Your glory thru creation and the realities of our everyday life.
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My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, … King Jesus, … I pray, Lord, that all reading here can, and will, join me today to be thankful to our God for our lives … just as they are … and for all He has created around us to help us see His glory. … Amen
Blogger Note: Everyday during this year, my daily devotional blogs are influenced by the reading and study of the online devotional blog entitled “Our Daily Bread,” distributed online via email by RBC Ministries. If you GO TO THIS LINK on the date of my blog, you can read/study the ODB blogs; or you can subscribe to the blog via email at that site.
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