Devotional Song: … GO TO THIS LINK …Please take the time to take in a YouTube video with images and song from Gordon Mote singing … Don’t Let Me Miss the Glory … poignantly singing of how we must take the time and take in what God has created for His glory and our pleasure … i.e., His creation.
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Highlight Verse[s]: Genesis 1:12 [NLT] … 12 The land produced vegetation: plants bearing seed according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good.
… God created the flowers for His glory and saw that they were good.
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Highlight Passage [context]: Genesis 1:1- 21 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… God creates EVERYTHING for our good and His glory.
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Reference Passage : … Psalm 19:1 [NLT] … 1 The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of His hands.
… All we have to do is look around us to see the glory of God and take in His glory.
Reference Passage : … Psalm 139:13-16 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… David sings of the glory of God’s creation in the magnificence of our own bodies.
Reference Passage : … Romans 1:19-20 [NLT] … SEE THIS LINK …
… All we need to do is look around us to see God’s glory in Creation.
My Devotional Journal: Today's ODB author, Xochitl Dixon, used a natural word picture of the greatness of God’s glory seen in His creation. The ODB author wrote … A rarely seen jellyfish waltzed with the currents, four thousand feet deep in the ocean near Baja, California. Its body shone with fluorescent shades of blue, purple, and pink, bright against the backdrop of black water [see photo #1 above]. Elegant tentacles waved gracefully with each pulsing of its bell-shaped hood. As I watched the amazing footage of the Halitrephes maasi jellyfish on the National Geographic video, I reflected on how God chose the specific design of this beautiful, gelatinous creature. He also fashioned the other 2,000 types of jellyfish that scientists have identified as of October 2017.
It’s a good reminder for us, isn’t it; as the old adage speaks, to “stop and smell the roses.” And that leads us to do what Gordon Mote sings in today’s linked video/song … i.e, to look around us and see God’s glory on display in His creation. It’s springtime here where I live and the azalea bushes are in full bloom (see photo #2 below).
And in the sunlight here in the Midsouth of the USA, they are so, so beautiful; … but only for a few weeks.
So, I’m reminding myself today to take in this beauty and thank God for what He has created for us. And my fellow Christians, … YOUR ASSIGNMENT [should you so choose] … is to stop today and look around you, … wherever you are, … and, as Gordon Mote sings, don’t miss God’s glory!!
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My THANKFULNESS: … Oh Abba Father, … thank You, Lord, … for creating all I see and smell and touch so that we can see Your glory all around us.
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My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, … King Jesus, … I pray, Lord, that all reading here can, and will, join me, to stop and look around us to see God’s glory today. … Amen
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