(C) Cheryl Howard 2008
The hand of GOD is everywhere
The heart of GOD revealed
The wonder of nature HIS glory declares,
Though HIS Person it is concealed.
HIS voice it speaks abundantly
Proclaiming loud HIS Life
HE speaks in sunrise, joy and ease
In sunset, suffering, calm and strife, HIS longing is to give us Life!
HE has writ HIS passion in stars above
And in the depths of oceans green
For you and me HE shouts HIS love
To every hungry soul can it be seen!
HE flung the galaxies far and wide
HIS extravagant heart shown forth
Ordained the moon and set the tides
To win our hearts HIS burning desire, since long before our birth!
thought for the journey …
Psalm 19:1-3 “The heavens declare the glory of GOD; and the firmament shows HIS handiwork. Day unto day utters speech, and night unto night reveals knowledge. There is no speech or language where their voice is not heard.”
Humanity knows, deep in our hearts that there is A Creator. We know that there is more to life than just this life. We are without excuse. Eternity is in our hearts - put there by GOD HIMSELF (Ecclesiastes 3:11 “HE has made everything beautiful in its time. Also HE has put eternity in their hearts, except that no one can find out the work that GOD does from beginning to end.”).
The question we must answer is, “WHO is this GOD?” And once we have settled that we must face the next question, “What is our response to HIM?”
For GOD HIMSELF declares WHO HE is in Isaiah 46:9-10 “Remember the former things of old, for I am GOD, and there is no other; I am GOD, and there is none like ME, declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times things that are not yet done, saying, ‘MY counsel shall stand, and I will do all MY pleasure.’”
We may not know all the answers, but GOD does, HE is All-Knowing; we may not know all that GOD is doing and has done - but HE knows! HE knows! What confidence that knowledge should instill within our hearts - HE knows! And HIS voice calls out to each of us; to come to HIM, to yield to HIM in trust; to give earnest heed to HIS voice, to HIS Word; to obey and to love HIM - to meet HIM at the foot of The Cross! The Cross that shouts HIS love for humanity.
Acts 4:12 “Nor is there salvation in any other, for there is no other Name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved!” (Acts 4:10 …”by the Name of JESUS CHRIST of Nazareth, …”)
GOD has revealed HIMSELF - in HIS creation, and literally in HIS Incarnate SON JESUS - John 14:9 “… He who has seen ME has seen The Father; …” John 10:30 “I and MY FATHER are One.”
So let us walk in CHRIST’s footsteps, following the example HE set for us in HIS humanity - John 6:38 “For I have come down from heaven, not to do MY own will, but the will of HIM Who sent ME.”
Let us also, live a life of desire for and obedience to the FATHER’s will in everything, for this is HIS promise to us in HIS SON - John 10:9-10 “I am the Door. If anyone enters by ME, he will be saved, and will go in and out and find pasture. The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly!”
