Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ... Please take the time to take in Images, song and lyrics from Jeremy Camp singing, The Answer … poignantly singing of how we Christians have so many questions in life from our perspective - when from God’s view, JESUS is the answer.
The Alignment of Orion's Belt
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Highlight Verse[s]: Romans 11:33 [NLT] ... 33 Oh, how great are God’s riches and wisdom and knowledge! How impossible it is for us to understand His decisions and His ways!
… God’s ways are often difficult to discern but ALWAYS the best ways to follow.
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Highlight Passage [context]: Romans 11:33-36 [NLT] ... USE THIS LINK ...
… God, thru Paul, helps us see that God’s ways are often different from ours … but always the best ways.
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Reference Passage : … Proverbs 3:5-6 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… Solomon warns us to always do our best to seek out God’s ways, which can be difficult to see when we’re following our own.
Reference Passage : … Isaiah 55:8-9 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… God, thru Isaiah, helps us see that our ways are often not in alignment with God’s.
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.
… Sometimes we have trouble seeing and following that truth, don’t we?
Reference Passage : …Colossians 1:15-16 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… The Apostle Paul helps us see that Jesus, Who created everything is so often the answer to our questions which are so difficult to answer.
My Devotional Journal: Today's ODB author, Evan Morgan , uses an alignment of stars [i.e., Orion’s Belt} to illustrate how it’s often difficult to see life the way God sees it. … The ODB author wrote: I was unexpectedly drawn to focus on Orion’s Belt—those three perfectly arranged stars often visible on clear nights. [see photo] I knew just enough about astronomy to understand that those three stars were hundreds of light years apart.
I realized the closer I could be to those stars, the less they would appear to be aligned. Yet from my distant perspective, they looked carefully configured in the heavens. At that moment, I realized I was too close to my life to see what God sees. In His big picture, everything is in perfect alignment.
The ODB illustration does help us realize that the way we see things and the way God sees them is often perplexing for us … but ALWAYS in alignment with God’s view. Often, because of the way we see life, we have trouble seeing with way in life the way God sees it. That’s what’s going on in these confusing viral times in which we live, isn’t it. Things don’t seem in alignment the way we’d like to see them, are they?
It’s hard these days to see what Jeremy Camp sings about in the linked song … that Jesus is the answer (see also Paul’s message in Col. 1:16). It’s hard, seeing life these days, to discern and believe the truth of Romans 8:28, isn’t it? But we know, that even tho God’s ways are way above our ability to see them (see Isaiah 55:8-9), we still must surrender and do all we can to follow Him (see Prov. 3:5-6).
That is my prayer for us today.
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My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh Abba Father, ... thank You, Lord, … for ALWAYS being “The Answer” we seek to understand life.
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My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... I pray, Lord, that all reading here will join me to surrender to the truth and reality that GOD KNOWS BEST. Amen
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