Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ... Please take the time to take in a YouTube video of images and lyrics from Brian Doerksen singing Creation Calls ... poignantly singing of how creation calls us to realize just how vast God’s creation is and how much God loves us in the scope of what our Lord and Creator has created for us.
==============
Highlight Verse[s]: Matthew 6:26 [NKJV] ... 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?
... Jesus assures us of our importance to our Heavenly Father.
==============
Highlight Passage [context]: Matthew 6:25-32 [NKJV] ... USE THIS LINK ...
… Jesus assures His followers of their importance to God in the vastness of the universe.
==============
Reference Passage : ... Psalm 8:3-4 [NKJV] ... 3 When I consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, the moon and the stars, which You have ordained, 4 what is man that You are mindful of him, And the son of man that You visit him?
... God, thru the Psalmist, shows us the vastness of His creation and our importance to Him thru it.
Reference Passage : ... Psalm 19:1 [NKJV] ... 1 The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament shows His handiwork.
... David sings of God’s glory as we simply look up into the heavens.
Reference Passage : ... John 1:1-3 [NKJV] ... USE THIS LINK …
... Think of it, … when we see the universe, we see all that God has created … for we are the crowning glory of HIs creation.
My Devotional Journal: Today's ODB author, Bill Crowder, reflects on how he feels so insignificant when he looks up into the vastness of the universe (see photo). … The ODB author wrote: What makes me feel small is creation’s vastness—when I gaze at an ocean, fly over the polar ice cap, or survey a night sky sparkling with a billion stars. If the created universe is so expansive, how much greater must be the Creator who spoke it into being!
But then the ODB author also reflects on reading and believing in the truth of what Jesus spoke to those who were following Him in the highlight passage from the Sermon on the Mount [see Matt. 6], … where He assured them (and us) of mankind’s importance to God.
And yes, we also read, in the psalms of David, just how vast the universe, which God created, appears when we look into the heavens [see the psalms copied above). And to think that all of that was created for God’s glory [YES!]; but it was also created for the crowning glory of God’s creation, which is mankind [that’s you and me!].
And then we look to the cross and see just what God was willing to do for us; … that, … in his love for mankind, He would send His Son, the glory of all glories, to die for us … to save us from our own sin [see John 3:16, which I’m sure you know by heart].
Oh, can you witness a profound and loud, ”HALLELUJAH” along with me as you read this; … for the God Who created all that we see in the heavens and under our feet, did so JUST FOR US. … Oh yes, for sure in bold red letters … ”HALLELUJAH !!!”
=============
My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh Abba Father, ... thank You, Lord, ... for creating all that I experience just for me and for Your glory.
=============
My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... I pray, Lord, that all reading here will join me to thank and praise our God for all He has created for us; … and most especially for sending His Son, our Lord, to die and save us from ourselves. … 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.</ span>
No comments:
Post a Comment