Thursday Devotional - Creation's Beauty

With COVID, we had one family vacation cancelled and didn’t plan other family vacations for the summer, other than visiting family. However, we finally planned a long weekend trip to Mackinac Island for this past weekend. I wasn’t sure how it would go, since the twins had just lived with us 2 weeks by then. When they found out we were going to Mackinac Island, though, they couldn’t wait! It gave them something to talk about and look forward to, especially while they missed their former home. They counted down the days!

We got to see lots of God’s beautiful creation – gorgeous water, sunrises, sunsets, lots of horses, flowers, trees, rock formations, bright moon and stars, etc. Mackinac Island is one of my favorite places on earth! It reminds me of the beauty and variety of all God created. No two sunrises or sunsets are the same! The night sky changes daily, too.   

In Bible study this year, we are studying Genesis. Covering most of chapter 1 this week was timely with our trip!

Genesis 1:14-19       And God said, “Let there be lights in the vault of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark sacred times, and days and years, ¹⁵ and let them be lights in the vault of the sky to give light on the earth.” And it was so. ¹⁶ God made two great lights—the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night. He also made the stars. ¹⁷ God set them in the vault of the sky to give light on the earth, ¹⁸ to govern the day and the night, and to separate light from darkness. And God saw that it was good. ¹⁹ And there was evening, and there was morning—the fourth day.

The twins (and all of us) enjoyed Mackinac Island! We took daily bike rides and got to point out lots of things God created.

What of God’s creation have you gotten to enjoy and marvel at this week?

Alice

Thursday Devotional - The Mystery of God

Spring causes me to marvel at God! After the Magnolia trees bloom, then the Dogwoods bloom. After our last tulip bloom fell this year, our Irises bloomed. Solomon said in Ecclesiastes 3:11 God “made everything beautiful in its time.” Not everything is beautiful at the same time. The seasons and timing within the seasons point to an amazing Creator!!!

Ecclesiastes 3:9-14  ⁹ What do workers gain from their toil? ¹⁰ I have seen the burden God has laid on the human race. ¹¹ He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the human heart; yet no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end. ¹² I know that there is nothing better for people than to be happy and to do good while they live. ¹³ That each of them may eat and drink, and find satisfaction in all their toil—this is the gift of God. ¹⁴ I know that everything God does will endure forever; nothing can be added to it and nothing taken from it. God does it so that people will fear him.

We won’t be able to understand all God has done and how He did it. The mystery and majesty of Him can help us fear and revere Him! How will you marvel at and praise God today for all He’s done?

Alice