Sorry for the day away. Our internet connection was out at home and I couldn't log on anywhere with my laptop. 'Somebody' just wasn't happy with me yesterday... oh, well, I don't live for the enemies happiness, but for God's.
So, as I was saying, before I was so rudely interrupted... GOD IS MAGNIFICENT in all that He has created.
Let's look at Job today, specifically Job 38-41. I'm not going to write it all out (if you don't have a Bible, go here http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Job%2038&version=NIV .
I just want to list what God was saying about Himself. There are not many times in the Bible where He talks about Himself Personally - others, inspired by Him wrote about Him, but there's just something different when a person testifies about themselves, isn't there?
Let's allow Him to speak for Himself to our hearts. He:
- Laid the earth's foundations - measuring the span of land.
- Set the span of the oceans and told it's mighty waves just how far they
could go (if you've ever been caught in an undertow and had to fight over
and over to make it back to firm footing - you learn how powerful the ocean
can be)
- Wrapped the seas in thick darkness. Far removed from light in the middle
of a sea or ocean it's pitch-black - so much so that it literally is hard to
breath. I've been on the Baltic Sea on a barge at night and went as close as
I dared to the bow (front of the barge). I speak from experience. It was
magnificent in it's force and a moment of total respect for God.
- Orders the dawn, the morning, to come alive. Birds singing, light shining
out through the darkness of night (even if it is raining).
- Walks in the recesses of the deep. He IS a Big God.
- Seen the gates of death and darkness.
- Keeper of light and darkness, snow, hail, lightning, wind, rain and
thunderstorms, dew, ice and frost.
- Waters a barren desert and causes grasses to grow in desolate places.
- Could move the stars in the heavens.
- Set the stars in place and gave man knowledge to us the start so that at
night navigation or travel could be possible.
- Has dominion over all the earth.
- Even gave the rooster knowledge on when to crow... like, seriously? All
these huge things and He says something that seems a bit menial like that?
- Sends rain on dry earth or holds it back.
- Gives lions instinct to hunt their prey.
- Provides food for the raven.
- Takes care of the animals and even watches them give birth - knowing the
exact time - wish I had a memory even a small portion of His.
- Gives the horse strength and the eagle it's majesty and ability to see small
prey from heights of about 1/4 mile.
- Voice thunders (like thunder)
- Adorns Himself with Glory, Splendor, Honor, and Majesty.
- Brings the proud low.
- Created great, strong creatures like the behemoth and leviathan that only
He could capture - don't think I'd want to run into one of these...
After all of this, spoken by God Himself, no wonder Job says, "My ears had heard of you but now my eyes have seen you. Therefore I despise myself and repent in dust and ashes."
His physical eyes may not have seen God Himself, the Lord - but His spiritual eyes 'saw' who God was... and still is.
Who are we to question what or how He does something? Since He has taken care of everything else - maybe, just maybe we can just simply believe that He will take care of us.
Praise Adonai - Paul Baloche - Jump-start your heart with this......
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