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...

Tuesday... Each one of us see and describe what we are going through differently but...

Tuesday... Each one of us see and describe what we are going through differently but... We each one have our own way of explaining what we are going through, don't we? Some of us are maximisers, other are minimizers and neither one is better. We each one are different and we see what we are facing differently but no matter what it is and how you see it and describe it, God can handle it! Now the writer of Psalm 46 shows the extremes. In verse 1 he states the basic reality and then he moves on into our fears and he maximizes them to make sure we really understand. Here is what Psalm 46:1-3 (NLT) says, "God is our refuge and strength, always ready to help in times of trouble. So we will not fear when earthquakes come and the mountains crumble into the sea. Let the oceans roar and foam. Let the mountains tremble as the waters surge!" So what do you fear? The Amplified Bible says verse 1 this way, "God is our refuge and strength [mighty and impenetrable], a very presen...

Wednesday... It didn't just happen.

Psalm 16;10 (NLT), "For you will not leave my soul among the dead or allow your holy one to rot in the grave." Wednesday... It didn't just happen. We are headed into a weekend of deep emotion. One that we really really love was killed and it didn't just happen. David in Psalm 16:10 (NLT) writes of this happening. He says about God, "For you will not leave my soul among the dead or allow your holy one to rot in the grave." We read over in the Gospels at the beginning of the New Testament in the Bible of the life of God's Son who came to earth to be our sacrifice so that our soul would not be left among the dead. Jesus came so that we wouldn't have to be buried at death and just left there. But he also shares that Jesus who was going to be killed as a sacrifice for our sins would not have to rot in a grave. David many generations before foretold this and that is what happened. Now that had to be a God thing. We can guess a lot about our future and we d...

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