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Thursday... Nature is not the beginning!


Psalm 114:3a (NLT), "The Red Sea saw them coming and hurried out of their way! The water of the Jordan River turned away."

Thursday... Nature is not the beginning!

es, it is so beautiful, yes it is majestic but it is not the beginning. God is the creator of it all and he is the beginning.

I love how the writer of Psalm 114 pictures some of the obstacles that the Children of Israel faced as they were coming out of Egypt to go and possess the land that God had prepared for these slaves.


Verses 3-4 NLT) says, "The Red Sea saw them coming and hurried out of their way! The water of the Jordan River turned away. The mountains skipped like rams, the hills like lambs!" Yes, they had these obstacles that were in their way just like we have obstacles that are greater than we are. What are you facing today?

Look at this. Verse 3 says, "What's wrong, Red Sea, that made you hurry out of their way? What happened, Jordan River, that you turned away? Why mountains, did you skip like rams? Why, hills, like lambs?"

I love sitting out each morning and looking out at the Sunset Mountains that are just across the 215. There is nothing in Las Vegas where I live that man has built that is greater than these mountains and these are not the big ones. I love nature but it is not the beginning. It did not create itself. And there is no obstacle in our life that God the creator can't handle.

Verses 7 & 8 says, "Tremble, O earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob. He turned the rock into a pool of water; yes, a spring of water flowed from solid rock."

Have you ever been lost in the mountains? Did you reach out to Nature to help you find your way out? The one to turn to is God. He knows the way out. He is the one to turn to.

Yes, nature is not the beginning, God is! Now nature is a great place to go and experience God, to worship Him. One of my favorite verses in the Bible is Psalm 121:1 (Msg) and it says, "I look up to mountains; does my strength come from mountains? No, my strength comes from God, who made heaven, and earth, and mountains."

Just remember, "The Red Sea saw them coming and hurried out of their way! The water of the Jordan River turned away." If you don't have a relationship with God, just say out to him, "I give you my life." Yes, yes! #todaysbeginning

 



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