Mar 9, 2021 … Peaceful Snowfall

Berry Patch Devotions in 2020 - Day 68 

Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ...  Please take the time to take in song and lyrics from Brian Doerkson singing… Creation Calls…  poignantly singing of how God speaks to us of His greatness and glory thru His creation. 

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Highlight Passage:  Job 37:6-7 [ESV] ... 

6 For to the snow he says, ‘Fall on the earth,’likewise to the downpour, His mighty downpour.   7  He seals up the hand of every man, that all men whom He made may know it.  

… God, thru Job’s friend, Elihu, helps us see that God’s design is seen in His creations but it way beyond our ability to explain.      

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Highlight Passage [Context]: …   Job 36:26-29, 37:5-7 [ESV] …  USE THIS LINK … 

… Job’s 4th friend, Elihu, helps Job seem thru God’s creation, that God’s works are way beyond man’s ability to grasp.  

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Reference Passage: … Psalm 19:1 [ESV] … 

1 The heavens declare the glory of God, and the sky above proclaims his handiwork.

…  David sings of God’s glory seen in His creation.     

Reference Passage: … Psalm 46: 8 [ESV] … 

8 Come, behold the works of the Lord, how He has brought desolations on the earth..

…  Even the great natural disasters in our world show us of God’s power.    

Reference Passage: … Isaiah 55:12 [ESV] …  

12 “For you shall go out in joy and be led forth in peace; the mountains and the hills before you shall break forth into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands. 

…  God, thru Isaiah, declares His handiwork by singing to us thru His creation.  

Reference Passage: … Romans 1:20 [ESV] … 

20 For His invisible attributes, namely, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse. 

…   Paul realized and declared that there is no way to miss God’s glory.  All we have to do is look around and see His mighty works in creation.   

My Devotional Journal: Today's Our Daily Bread author, Tim Gustafson, AT THIS LINK …    writes about a song written/sung by a group, Over the Rhine, which sings of the first snowfall of the year and how it brings a vision of God’s peace. [hear the song AT THIS LINK] … 

And another song, linked above by Brian Doerkson, also helps us see, as God helped Job see (see highlight passage), that all we have to do is look around us to see the inexplicable power and glory of God thru His creation.  

Just a few weeks ago, tho it doesn’t snow often her where I live in the MidSouth in the USA, we had a blanket of snow which covered our landscape (see photo); and it was so easy to look around and feel God’s peace and His glory in the blanket of white.  And I pray we look around us today and be reminded of God’s glory (see the Scriptures above and especially -  Romans 1:20).  

It’s God speaking to us of His presence, His power, and His glory. 

My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh Abba Father, ... thank You, Lord, … for showing off to me thru Your creation. 

My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I pray that all reading here will join me, … to take in the wonder of God’s creation and know that He created it all for us.    … Amen 

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