Shhh!

Daily Reading: Job 25-27

How small a whisper do we hear of him! (Job 26.14b)

Devotional Thought: Several years ago, my family vacationed in east-central Tennessee.  We stayed in a log cabin way out in the country.  Among those rolling hills, the nearest lights were miles away.  The night sky was ablaze with stars shining brightly against the blackness of space.  We gathered on the deck to do a little star gazing, and we were treated to a magnificent exhibition of shooting stars!  It was breathtaking.  We all marveled at the beauty and vastness of creation.  And that was just a "small whisper" of God.

The dimensions and age of our universe challenge our imagination.  How can we mortals, who occupy such a small place in time and space, ever conceive the vastness of all that is around us.  Or, how can we conceive something as infinitesimally small as the Planck Length, far too small for any instrument to measure?  And what of the intricately dependent relationships between all living matter?  These are but a whisper of the God who dwells outside the universe, inside the atom, and in relationship to all things.

Job knew this.  He knew that he didn't - nor couldn't - understand all the ways of God.  Job confessed that what he knew of God - all the grandeur and 'terror' - were "but the outskirts of his ways" (v. 14)

And, this God has deigned to come to us in human flesh, in the person of Jesus Christ.  Hear the whisper of his love, for he desires to dwell among us and to be our God and for us to be his people.

Prayer: Oh Lord my God, when I in awesome wonder consider all the worlds thy hands have made, I see the stars; I hear the rolling thunder, thy power throughout the universe displayed.  Then sings my soul - my Savior God to Thee - "How great thou art!"

Psalm of the Day: Psalm 121.5-8

5 The LORD is your keeper; the LORD is your shade on your right hand.

6 The sun shall not strike you by day, nor the moon by night.

7 The LORD will keep you from all evil; he will keep your life.

8 The LORD will keep your going out and your coming in from this time forth and forevermore.