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Welcome to this week's "Friday Evening" devotional. Have a great
Labor Day weekend.
God is Watching! Tom Barnard
“God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in trouble. Therefore we will not fear, though the earth give way and the mountains quake with their surging.” (Psalm 46:1-3)
“God will not allow anything that He has created to be lost from his care… No bird falls to the ground without His notice, nor can one drop of dew be siphoned from the rose petal without His knowledge.” Kenneth E. Sullivan And I Saw the Mountain, p. 245
There are days when the only news is bad news. If it’s not the weather, it’s the stock market. If it’s not one political party, it is the other. If it’s not the economy, it’s foreign policy. If it’s not global warming, it’s global cooling. As one wag put it, “Everything’s that’s not nailed down is coming loose.”
In the midst of chaos, God is watching…and working. King David understood this truth. Referring to God’s omnipresence, the psalmist said, “…even the darkness will not be dark to you; the night will shine like the day, for darkness is as light to you” (Psalm 139:12). How comforting is that!
Consider these words written by Hildebert of Lavardin, Archbishop of Tours and a medieval poet:
“God is over all things, under all things; outside all; within but not enclosed; without but not excluded; above but not raised up; below but not depressed; wholly above, presiding; wholly beneath, sustaining; wholly without, embracing; wholly within, filling.”
God is indeed our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in trouble. For me; for you. Rejoice!
Father, God. Thank you for allowing me to call you Father. Thank you for being with me in every challenge I face. Thank you for extending your grace and mercy to me. Thank you for anticipating the good times and the not-so-good times that come my way. Thank you for never turning a deaf ear to my requests. Thank you for offering your help even before I ask. Thank you for turning the defeats in my life to victory. Amen. |