Monday... We can see His work and it is great.

People who don't believe in God have to stretch when they get into nature and know that it didn't just happen.

Margaret and I took a day trip this weekend into Arizona and we saw a great variety of beauty. And it reinforced our belief in God. It didn't in anyway minimize our belief that someone greater than us had a hand in creation. It didn't just happen.

The writer of Psalm 95:4 & 5 (NLT) says, "He holds in his hands the depths of the earth and the mightiest mountains. The sea belongs to him, for he made it. His hands formed the dry land, too." We can see His work and it is great.

We live in a area where man has created some unbelievable structures. On our trip this weekend we drove over a bridge that connects Nevada and Arizona and looked down on the Hoover Dam. Man can build unbelievable stuff but God created the mountains all around us and even the smallest ones look down on what man builds.

And this is the key. Whatever problem you are facing today is not greater than God. Whatever you hand Him He has the ability to use it, to take care of it and give you the strength to face it and to live through it. So let's give it to Him and trust Him to do what needs to be done.

Verses 3-6 in the Amplified Bible says, "For the Lord is a great God and a great king above all gods. In whose hand are the depths of the earth; the peaks of the mountains are His also, The sea is His, for He made it [by command]; and His hands formed the dry land. O come, let us worship and bow down, let us kneel before the Lord our Maker [in reverent praise and prayer]." And then verse 7, "For He is our God and we are the people of His pasture and the sheep of His hand."

We can see His work and it is great. Yes, yes! #todaysbeginning

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Friday... Yes, we need them. We really do

Psalm 8:3-4 (NLT), "When I look at the night sky and see the work of your fingers - the moon and the stars you set in place - what are mere mortals that you should think about them, human beings that you should care for them?" Friday... Yes, we need them. We really do. No, not the fact that I can go out my front door and look out at night at the marvels of the sky. I can do that and it is amazing and it takes my breath away each time I see it. Yes, that is a fact but the reality of who did that and the wisdom and the faith that I have to believe that and to marvel that the one who did that cares about me makes such a difference in how I live my life. Yes, God really does. That is so wonderful for us to believe. And that is why faith and wisdom are so important. Now whatever belief you have at how that marvel happened must also be believed through faith. And the sad thing to me is that more and more people have been taught that there is no God and therefore he did not have a h...

Monday... Three ifs and two thens. They go together!

Monday... Three ifs and two thens. They go together! They really do. And this is what caught my attention this morning as I was reading Proverbs 2. Verse 1 (NRSVUE) says, "My child, if you accept my words and treasure my commands within you." Verse 3 (NIV), "Indeed i f you call out for insight and cry aloud for understanding, Verse 4, and if you look for it as for silver and search for it as for hidden treasure, Verse 5, then you will understand the fear of the Lord and find the knowledge of God." And verses 9-11, " Then you will understand what is right and just and fair - every good path. For wisdom will enter your heart, and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul. Discretion will protect you, and understanding will guard you." There will always be some effort we must do, some ifs for the thens to be realized in our lives. So many of us want to understand without the ifs. But the thens are so worth, so very worth the effort. Verses 5-6 in the Ampli...

Wednesday... Our unless can turn into useless.

Wednesday... Our unless can turn into useless. It really can. I have found that unless I give the correct email of my wife then I can't get what I wanted. I put an extra i in her email and I have been working for 5 days to get it changed. Unless has been useless. The writer of Psalm 94 uses this word and shows how important it is. Verses 17-19 (NLT) says, "Unless the Lord had helped me, I would have soon settled in the silence of the grave. I cried out, 'I'm slipping!' but your unfailing love, O Lord, supported me. When doubts filled my mind, your comfort gave me renewed hope and cheer." "Unless the Lord had helped me." So many people go on and on and on striving to live their life on their own but they keep slipping and doubting and living without hope and cheer. Yes the Lord has such unfailing love for us, he really does but unless we have a relationship with him and we turn to him and ask him for help then the unless turns in to useless because h...

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