Creation

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Currently, I am in a 9 month study of the Psalms through the international program, Community Bible Study. Again and again the Psalms reference creation.

O Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth.  You have set your glory above the heavens. Psalm 8:1

Sitting out on our screened porch, doing my lesson, I was mesmerized by all that was occurring in creation.  Leaves were falling, billowing clouds were passing by as the wind caused the tree branches to bend and the river to ripple.  Crows were cawing and a fat baby ground hog ran along the grass as a squirrel scampered up a tree. Then the rain began to fall. The magnitude of God hit me as I realized He was aware of it all.

"Everything God has made is preaching, with loudspeakers, cranked high and embedded everywhere we turn, and yet we often have our heads down, scrolling on our phones, almost nodding off."  Marshall Segal

Let the rivers clap their hands; let the hills sing for joy together. Psalm 98:8

One of the things I enjoy about living is Virginia is our seasons and the way the changes remind me that God is ever present and always at work.  As I was writing this it hit me...we are being RENEWED in Christ each day.  Yes, when we accepted Christ we were made new...

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.  2 Corinthians 5:17

But just as the flowers drop their petals, the leaves fall to the ground and the cycle of life continues as we wait for a season of new growth, we are growing as well.  Not just in the physical sense, but spiritually as well.  Now as I look at the leaves turning brown and falling to the ground I will praise the Lord for the continual process of my spiritual growth and the need for the things not of the Lord to fall away.

The Lord is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer, my God, my rock, in whom I take refuge, my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold. (Psalm 18:2).

The Song  (A new one and an oldie.)

“This is My Father’s World” Chris Tomlin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHCily2IIbE


and

"How Majestic Is Your Name"  Sandi Patti

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXzzsoL7tEI




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