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O LORD,
What A Variety Of Things
You Have Made!
Scripture
Psalm 104
19 You made the moon to mark the seasons,
and the sun knows when to set.
20 You send the darkness, and it becomes night,
when all the forest animals prowl about.
21 Then the young lions roar for their prey,
stalking the food provided by God.
22 At dawn they slink back
into their dens to rest.
23 Then people go off to their work,
where they labor until evening.
24 O Lord, what a variety of things you have made!
In wisdom you have made them all.
The earth is full of your creatures.
25 Here is the ocean, vast and wide,
teeming with life of every kind,
both large and small.
Observation
Take
a few minutes today just to look around and think about the variety of
everything that the Lord has made! None of us look the same!
We
are all uniquely and wonderfully made! We have a Creator who loves variety!
The
tendency though is for us to dislike and look down on people that God has made
simply because He has made them with a different tone of skin or they learned
to speak a different language than ours when they were growing up.
You
and I are so unlike God when we let hatred, prejudice, and discrimination rule
in our hearts.
Trust
me. It is a worldwide problem not just a problem here in the USA.
Every
country that Kathy and I have visited or lived in all had the same problem
going on that we have!
There
are so many things that I love about our church, but one of the things that
tops the list is our cultural diversity! Red and Yellow, Black and White they
are precious in His sight!
May
you and I examine our hearts to make sure that we don’t allow or give any space
to the hate that permeates our country today!
Application
I
will guard my heart. How about you?
Prayer
Heavenly
Father, thank You for all the variety that I see all around me. Help me to
celebrate it and not be critical of it. Don’t let me look down on anyone just
because they are different than me. Everybody is different. Help me Lord to
look at people through Your eyes. Give me Your heart for the people that You
bring into my life. Thank You for creating me when You did and the way You did.
Thank You for allowing me to be born in this country where I had the
opportunity to hear the Gospel and turn to You for my salvation! You are
Awesome Lord, totally Awesome!
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