Friday, April 22, 2022

April 22, 2022 … Caring For Creation

Berry Patch Devotions in 2021 - Day 112 


Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ...   Please take the time to take in song and lyrics from Brian Doerksen singing  Creation Calls … poignantly singing.of how we, God’s greatest creation, are called to carry for His creation.  



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Highlight Passage [Context]: …  Genesis 2:15 [NLT] …  

15 The Lord God placed the man in the Garden of Eden to tend and watch over it.  

… God creates a special place - a garden full of life - for the man and the woman and charged them to watch over His creation.                    


Highlight Passage [Context]: … Genesis 2:4-10, 15 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… God’s account of His creation of a garden of life for His greatest creation, . mankind.                ===============      


Reference Passage: … Psalm 19:1, 24:1 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… King David in song helps see that God shows us His glory thru His creation.    


Reference Passage: … Jeremiah 2:7 [NLT] … 

7  “And when I brought you into a fruitful land to enjoy its bounty and goodness, but you defiled my land and corrupted the possession I had promised you.     

… God, thru Jeremiah, rebukes His chosen people for defiling the promised land He gave them to share in its bounty. 


Reference Passage: … John 1:3 [NLT] … 

3  God created everything through Him and nothing was created except through Him.    

… God’s word, thru John, helps us realize and remember that God created all we see around us … for us and for His glory.                   


Reference Passage … Romans 1:20 [NLT] … 

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.    

… God’s creation has always shown us of His glory; and so no one can claim to have never seen God’s glory.                                                                       

 

My Devotional JournalToday's Our Daily Bread author, Lisa M Samra … AT THIS LINK  wrote of our government setting aside a day each year - on April 22nd here in the USA - to remember and take acton to protect the planet that we see gloriously displayed all around us (see photo).   


And if my readers today have taken in the linked song and meditated on God’s word above, I think we’d all agree that God has give mankind, thru creation, His charge to tend and take care of this planet.  So, I’m sure God would smile and agree with all that “Earth Day” reminds us.  


Because, from Adan and Eve in the garden (see highlight passage), right thru all of history, our Lord has shown His glory thru creation and desires that we honor Him by taking care of His creation.  So, we are charged by this ODB entry to ask what we can do today - on this Earth Day - and hereafter as well, to glorify our God by caring for His planet.                


My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh, Abba Father, thank You, King Jesus, … for Your creation which displays Your glory today and hereafter.          

My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I pray that all reading here will join me, …  to remember today to do all we can, Lord, to honor You by caring for Your creation.…   Amen 


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