Berry Patch Devotions in 2021 - Day 316
Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ... Please take the time to take in a song and lyrics from Brian Doerksen singing … Creation Calls … poignantly singing of how we how God surrounds us with His glory and majesty as we look around in His creation.
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Highlight Passage: … Job 38:4 [NLT] …
4 “Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Tell Me, if you know so much.
… Job looks around in creation and sees that His God is control of it all, … including Job’s (and our) circumstances.
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Highlight Passage [Context]: … Job 38:1-18 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… God shows Job - in the midst of a violent storm - shows that it is HE, GOD, Whom is in control of all He created.
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Reference Passage: … Job 42:5-6 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… Job finally comes to see the true nature of God thru His creation, repenting of all Job’s questions about his life circumstances.
Reference Passage: … Psalms 19:1-4 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… King David, singing by God’s Spirit, and showing us that God’s creation cries out for us to see our God more intimately.
Reference Passage: … Romans 1:19:20 [NLT] …
19 They know the truth about God because He has made it obvious to them. 20 For ever since the world was created, people have seen the earth and sky. Through everything God made, they can clearly see His invisible qualities—His eternal power and divine nature. So they have no excuse for not knowing God.
… The Apostle Paul shows us that we have no excuse about knowing the existence of God because His work (in creation) is all around us.
Reference Passage: … Colossians 1:15-20 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… God has shown us Whom He is thru His Son, … King Jesus! And thru Creation Hs shows us how He holds all things together for HIs glory.
My Devotional Journal: Today's Our Daily Bread author, Dave Branon, AT THIS LINK … tells of how he and his wife, while taking a little nature walk in the spring of the year, noted some turtles sunning on a log (see photo), causing them to reflect, thru God’s creation, that God created all we can see around us for our good and His glory.
I woke up this morning in a pretty deep funk, … wondering about my purpose and direction in life. But the timing of this ODB entry that I was led to read today, looking at all of life, thru the eyes of Job and his trials; … and then being reminded, thru Brian Doerksen’s beautiful song (linked here), … that I (and all of us) need to look around and see that our God has created anything and EVERYTHING we see for my (and our) good and for His glory.
It was a wonderful shot of emotional B-12 for me today, being reminded of God’s glory thru His creation. And perhaps others reading here, i.e., those who’re down on ourselves or in a funky place in life, … we really need to look around and finally see God as Job came to see His glory thru His creation (see John 42: 5-6).
My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh, Abba Father, thank You, King Jesus, … for helping me to look around, … mired in my own selfishness, … to see Your love, Lord, thru Your creation.
My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I pray that all reading here will join me, … to look around and be lifted up as we see Your glory, Lord, thru Your creation. … Amen
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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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