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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