Wednesday... Yes, yes, this is so, so important to know.

Psalm 75:1 (NLT), "We thank you, O God! We give thanks because you are near. People everywhere tell of your wonderful deeds."

Wednesday... Yes, yes, this is so, so important to know.

When I was young we as a family lived in a small travel trailer. My father was a traveling evangelist so we all lived in a one bedroom trailer. We also lived in the car. We would be in a church holding services where my dad preached for 10 days and my sister and I would sing with our dad who also played the piano. And after the second Sunday night service, dad would hook the car up to the trailer and we would head out to the next church where we did it all again starting Wednesday through two Sundays. We as a family were always together. Our mom was also our teacher. We were together all of the time.

One time my mom was sick and in the hospital and my sister and I were staying with our uncle and aunt and I had trouble at night with mom and dad not close and my aunt came in and helped to comfort me. Dad and mom weren't close, weren't near and I was scared.

Now Psalm 75:1 (NLT) deals with this. It says, "We thank you, O God! We give thanks because you are near. People everywhere tell of your wonderful deeds." Yes, yes, this is so, so good. My Dad and mom are now in heaven but God is so near. He is always close.

Verse 3 says, "When the earth quakes and its people live in turmoil. I am the one who keeps its foundations firm." God said that to us.

Do you realize that? No matter what we are going through, "We thank you, O God! We give thanks because you are near."

I also read Luke 8 this morning and it tells of a time when the disciples were in a boat and a storm came up and they were afraid but Jesus was asleep in the boat, he was near.

Verses 23b-25 says, "The boat was filling with water, and they were in real danger. The disciples went and woke him up, shouting, 'Master, Master, we're going to drown!' When Jesus woke up, he rebuked the wind and raging waves. Suddenly the storm stopped and all was calm. Then he asked them, 'Where is your faith?' The disciple were terrified and amazed. 'Who is this man?' they asked each other. 'When he gives a command, even the wind and waves obey him!."

Yes, it is so important to have God in our boat and to realize that he is near. Yes, it is so important for us to give him our life and to realize that he is in our boat, in our life.

Psalm 75:1 in the New International Reader's Version says, "God we praise you. We praise you because you are near to us. People talk about the wonderful things you have done."

I was reminded about this fact this morning because I spent time in the Bible. Yes, " People talk about the wonderful things you have done." Yes, God can also ask us, "Where is your faith?" Well, it comes from reading where, "People talk about the wonderful things you have done." Yes, we need to be reminded that God is near, don't we? Well, he is. He really is and we can thank him for that fact.

Oh and by the way, we can talk to him through prayer. Yes, this is so, so important to know. So give him your life and then tell someone that you did and then know that he is near. Yes, yes! #todaysbeginning