from Lenae - GEMS Training Manager
Hello! This will be the last weekly devotion until the week of July 18. Lord willing, much will take place between now and then including Canada Day, Independence Day, and the 42nd Annual Counselors’ Leadership Conference in Fort Collins, Colorado. If you’re attending Conference, I look forward to seeing you there! If not, please keep all of us in your prayers. That would be such a gift to all who attend.
Wherever you’ll be in the next few weeks, open your eyes to the beauty of His creation and respond with fear, worship, and praise to our all-wise Creator.
OUR WISE CREATOR
By wisdom the LORD laid the earth’s foundations, by understanding he set the heavens in place; by his knowledge the deeps were divided, and the clouds let drop the dew.
Proverbs 3:19-20
Did you know that the Colorado Rockies are part of the North American Cordillera, which stretches 3,000 miles from Alaska, through western Canada and the United States, into northern Mexico? The peaks of the Colorado Rockies are over 14,000 feet and dubbed “Fourteeners” by those who climb them. There are 52 Fourteeners in Colorado.
Did you know that bald eagles, sand hill cranes, shore birds and water birds nest and migrate to Colorado? This state is the second in the nation for variety of birds.
Did you know that there are nearly 20 rivers whose headwaters begin in Colorado, with the Continental Divide directing each river’s course?
Did you know that the tallest sand dune in America is in Great Sand Dunes National Park outside of Alamosa, Colorado?
How did God create such majestic and awe-inspiring segments of creation within the state of Colorado and the place that you call home? By wisdom!
By wisdom the LORD founded the earth; by understanding he created the heavens. By his knowledge the deep fountains of the earth burst forth, and the dew settles beneath the night sky (Proverbs 3:19-20, NLT).
By wisdom, God made galaxies and grapevines, people and porcupines, oceans and orangutans, mountains and molehills. When you see, hear, touch, smell, and experience His creation are you overcome with awe and a divine wow of who God is?
It’s through creation that God has made Himself plain to all peoples. For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities – his eternal power and divine nature – have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse (Romans 1:20).
It’s through creation that God reveals Himself to us – His might, His power, His unfathomable bigness, His creativity, His strength, His supremacy, and His wisdom.
R.C. Sproul writes, “Men are never duly touched and impressed with the conviction of their insignificance, until they have contrasted themselves with the majesty of God.”
Wisdom Step: Take a walk, study a flower, watch cloud formations, worship and fear the all-wise God, creator of heaven and earth.
Whatever God’s reasons for such diversity, creativity, and sophistication, on earth, and in our own bodies, the point of it all is His glory. God’s art speaks of Himself, reflecting who
He is and what He is like.
Francis Chan
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