THE WONDERS OF GOD

You have probably heard of the seven wonders of the world, some being the Tajmahal, the Hanging Gardens of Babylon (what a place for a garden), the Pyramid of Giza, the Lighthouse of Alexandria, etc. All these maybe wonders to this world and they may be magnificent to a degree. But they have one thing in common that makes them not so much of a wonder, and that is that they are man-made objects. They can not compare to THE WONDERS OF OUR GOD.  I would like to focus, for this posting, on THE WONDERS OF GOD that HIS hands and fingers and voice made, that we have and use each day of our lives, and perhaps hardly give a thought about. I am in LOVE,  so I like to talk about my LOVE and brag on His greatness, the splendid excellence of HIS majesty and the GLORY that I bathe and drench myself  in daily.  I can't help myself, this LOVE overtakes me, and I talk of HIS powerful pull on me as if I am addicted. In a sense I reckon (a back in the day word) I am addicted to LOVE. THE WONDERS OF GOD are all around us and we use them without much thought or realizing how important they are to our survival.  Consider the AIR.  First of all what is it?  I know that scientifically there is an explanation but don't the experts have answers for everything, and because we consider them tops in their areas of expertise, we take what they say as truth.(John17:17).  Well, ponder  awhile with me.  Air, it is all around us, more than enough for every living person, place and thing to have plenty, with a supply that NEVER runs low or out. Who gave that kind of abundance of life- sustaining necessity to all of us? You need not qualify to recieve  this AIR SUPPLY,  there is no income level/limit needed, skin color has nothing to do with it,  where you live and what you drive, or how you dress has no bearing on this supply,  you simply have it as God's provision for life.GOD IS GOOD TO ALL OF US!  I would venture to say that if man had created this air,  he would find ways to charge for its usage. Whoa to the person who couldn't make that monthly payment.  Consider the sky, clouds, sun, rainbows, moon, stars (Psalm8:3), water, dirt, trees, grass wind, rain, snow, seasons, the seeds inside the earth.  I could also speak of THE WONDERS OF GOD that we visit and find them breathtaking, such as mountains, the oceans, all this and much more made only from the finger of GOD (Genesis 1:6-19), (Psalm 8:3-4nlt). GLORY TO GOD IN THE HIGHEST!! Water... What is it? Why is it so vitally important to life?  70% of the earth is made of water and over 60% of our body is made up of water (Psalm36:8).  GLORY TO GOD! HAIL TO THE KING OF CREATION!! God made all this possible and indeed so before HE put us in the GARDEN.  All these WONDERS God created, and they all listen to Him and obey His voice (Psalm 107:29). God  in all His wisdom and knowledge about all things,  answered Job and his friends with words that paint a word- picture of HIM and HIS greatness and majesty and attention to the details of creation,  when He said " Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Who determined its dimensions and stretched out the surveying line? What supports its foundation and who laid the cornerstone?"( ...Job 38). GOD and ONLY GOD can have all the Glory. HALLELUJAH!! My mind  in all its limited capacity, looks at all this and I get to wondering about things that may or may not make sense or whatever but I wonder none the less.  When I look at trees, long tall sky touching trees (seemingly),the nest that the birds choose to build there, or the tips of the trees,who would water that if the rain didn't. All gardeners know that plants and trees need water, even the tip top.Would you go into the forest or into the desert or anywhere they grow, and water the trees?  I will be honest,  I probably wouldn't.  God provides for all His creation.(Psalm135:7) GLORY TO GOD!! Check out the ground and the grass. What on earth is that?  Dirt.  This stuff makes things grow.  How did God do that?  I bet they can't figure that out fully and make a t.v. program about it. Oh yeah I'm forgetting "the experts". This stuff can be reproduced and bought,  and all the gardeners said YEAH!!! What about grass?  Have you noticed grass grows is strange places. By strange I mean in concrete, between bricks, along sidewalks and such.  That comes from seed already in the ground placed there by GOD (Genesis 1: 11-12). Look up.  Have you thought about the SKY lately?  Ponder this: it is EVERYWHERE. There is not a place on this planet where you cannot see the SKY. In fact with the exception of wind, there is all this creation to see EVERYWHERE, perhaps all at once or some here and some there, but seen nonetheless.The SKY in all this glorious color and display of clouds, sun, the moon, the stars at night, rainbows. WOW!! What must HEAVEN be like?  This is a beautiful thing this SKY.  Have you ever seen a sunset? What about the Dawning of the new day? Have you paid attention to the day- moon? Can you count the differring amount of colors the SKY shows?  Blue is not all there is, look for the purples and the oranges and the various whites, just to mention a few.GLORY TO GOD ALMIGHTY!!  The rainbows are AWESOME!!! Look for them through the Sun, dark sunglasses bring out this greatness powerfully.  Prepare your neck muscles, because when you catch these sights, you will find yourself looking upward quite a bit.  Shall I say your head will be in clouds. You will probably say what I find myself saying so often, GLORY TO GOD IN THE HIGHEST!!! HAIL TO THE KING OF THE UNIVERSE, OF CREATION, OF ALL THINGS!! LET ALL PRAISE ARISE TO THE CREATOR OF HEAVEN AND EARTH!!!. I can't help it, I am sooo in LOVE that I forget myself and get to praising GOD so much that I have to type and praise at the same time and I just can't type that fast. GLORY TO GOD!!  Let the WIND blow on your face and through your soul, it will refresh your spirit. Allow the RAIN to wash the LOVE of GOD beyond your skin and into the HEART where HE is. Request the BRIGHT MORNING STAR  to reside in you and as the SEASONS OF LIFE change, you will discover that you are NEVER ALONE (Hebrews13:5-6).God is LEADING if you allow it,(Deuteronomy 30:19), so do so. You won't go wrong with the CREATOR OF THE WORLD always with you.(Psalm 139:13-18). I love you,  God loves you, and Jesus is Lord!! Be Blessed in This CREATION. Job 38, 39, Psalm 136:4-9

THE MEN

  Men!!I absolutely love this created human species God Almighty made.  When God created this creature, He placed inside him His  Spirit connected to Him in His image, like Him.  That is enough right there to fall in love with a man, because of what he's made of and by who,  but there is more to this wonderful specimen.  God implanted in man His characteristics such as creators, providers leaders, head of the family, strength, tender,mechanical, fierce, task - oriented, warriors,committment keepers,survivors, mighty men of God are a few descriptors that come to mind when I think about them.When I think of their physical characteristics, strong, handsome, muscular are those that jump out right away.God in all His wisdom and knowledge of all things, made this creation to fit perfectly with a woman: all parts fit together as if putting together a puzzle, and I think it is marvelous!!  Let all the women shout AMEN!!!  God has granted me the priviledge to write about THE MEN. I chose 4 of my favorites.  I have many favorites, but these 4 are second to HIMSELF only.  THE MEN...Moses, Joshua, David, Solomon. God spoke directly to each ONE of these MEN.  He had a relationship with them where 2- way conversation took place. He gave each MAN directions as to what He wanted them to accomplish for Him. Directions about how to lead His people. Each MAN  had a few things in common:  They HAD FAITH IN THEIR FATHER, and THEY FELL IN LOVE EVERYDAY with God  and were devoted to Him even while falling down. That is too awesome for words but I am going to try to word this. Help me Holy Spirit!   Moses saw a bush burning but not being consumed and upon further inspection, he realized God was calling him onto the Holy ground and into service (Exodus 3:1-17).  He was called to deliver the people of Israel out of slavery in Egypt and into freedom (Exodus 12:31-33). His obedience to God caused favor to be on him because he was a wanted murderer in Egypt, but God said go.  Moses is referred to as a MAN God knew face to face(Deuteronomy34:10), but even at that there was a severe consequence for him due to his disobedience to God when he struck the rock after God specifically told him to speak to the rock for the water to be released. As a result Moses wasn't allowed to take this great people into the promised land (Numbers 20:1-13) (Deuteronomy 32:48-52) .  He lead them out triumphantly, but his anger and frustration at God's stubborn, stiffneck people in the wilderness caused him to miss out on the land of milk and honey. He was 120 years old when he died strong as ever (Deuteronomy 34:7). Right here I will speculate that he went to a far greater place and heard the wonderful words "well done my good and faithful servant". Joshua   is by far my MAN. He was called by God upon the death of Moses, his hero,  to lead this people across the Jordan and into the promised land.  No less than 3 times did God command Joshua to be strong and courageous. He knew that it would take the strength and courage of a warrior to accomplish what needed to be done in this new land. I think about the strength and bravery of the mighty MEN (and women)  fighting this battle on foreign soil around this world  to keep and maintain the peace. God told Joshua what would be necessary to be successful: study this Book Of Instruction and Meditate on it day and night (Joshua 1:1-9). Keeping God's Word in our eyes and in our Heart will guarantee success and longevity for all who will believe by faith. So he did as God told him to do and carrying the ARK before them, they crossed the Jordan and into their future. Joshua had much success becaused he fixed his heart and mind to follow God's directions.Jericho's march caused them to utterly destroy an entire nation without breaking much of a sweat (Joshua 6). As well there was disobedience in the camp and it brought  a consequence onto the people of Israel, although it was not Joshua who disobeyed God.  This sin caused a broken covenant with God that was soon renewed when the sin was revealed and who caused it (Joshua 7:11-12,24-26). Joshua settled the issue and fixed his heart when he stated "..as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD" (Joshua 24:15). Let all  the 21st century heads of households say AMEN!!! Joshua was 110 years old @death (Joshua 24:29).  David excites me beyond all reason. He was the youngest of Jesse's son and the shepherd of the bunch. Watching his father's sheep out in the wilderness, what else could he do but sing love songs to God. So he did. Many of the Psalms were written while out in the wilderness tending the sheep, fighting off the bear and the lion. Protector.  The Bible describes him as handsome , dark (tanned perhaps) with beautiful eyes (1Samuel 16:11-13 nlt).  He was anointed King as a boy, but his love and reverential fear and devotion to God was developed in the wilderness, under the stars tending sheep, FALLING IN LOVE EVERYDAY, playing that harp, singing LOVE to God, talking bout the LORD is my shepherd (Psalm23), taking delight and meditating day and night (Psalm1), extoling the Heavens and the works of God's  fingers creating all things, the moon, the stars, and such (Psalm8:3), just to highlight a few. Sounds like he had intimacy with God as a youth and God responded to him sending Samuel to find him, anoint him. Read some or all of the Psalms David wrote and you can tell he wanted it known God was all and all.GLORY!!!  He had wisdom to kill Goliath (1Samuel 17: 45-51), not strength this time. He became King of all Israel @ the age of 30  ruling 40 years.(2Samuel 5:1-5). His disobedience and sin had severe consequences as well with the death of his child he concieved with Bathsheba, Uriah's wife(2Samuel 11:1-27) and  his own household rebeling against him (2Samuel 12: 1-23). He confessed his sin and repented revealing a repentant heart in Psalm 51.  God is so forgiving and merciful, and He stayed the angels hand and kept Jerusalem from being utterly destroyed after David committed a later sin, which he repented of and God's mercy endured, sparing this nation yet again (2Samuel 24:10-16). He was a great King and he died and was buried in the city of David, named for him to this day.  He wasn't perfect, by far, but devoted to God he was.  Solomon was his son by Bathsheba and he became the next king.  He was honest in that he declared himself to be but a child , chosen to lead this nation and that he needed wisdom and guidance to do so. He asked God for this wisdom to lead and knowledge of right and wrong.  God heard this prayer and answered him granting him his request and God added wealth and riches to him (1Kings 3:3-15).  He was selected to build the TEMPLE 480 years after this nation left slavery in Egypt (1Kings 6:1).  Constructed with the finest of materials , it was a glorious place and after the ARK was brought in it was dedicated and all PRAISED God in this Holy place. HALLELUJAH!!!  God was well pleased and set it apart, vowing to watch over it and dwell in it.  He promised Solomon one of his descendants would always sit on the throne (1Kings 9:1-7). God instructed Solomon on what to do if the Heavens were shut up with no rain falling,or a FAMINE CAME UPON THE LAND or plagues were among the people (2Chronicles 7:12-18). Disobedience could bring these consequences (Deuteronomy 28: 15-68).  His mercy lasts forever.  These MEN demonstrated through obedience and devotion to God the call and assignment God gave them  THE POWER OF ONE. Their Love and committment to God carried them through a long satisfied life and reign (Psalm 91:16) as leaders, warriors, kings, mighty men of God.  Allow your love and devotion for God AlMighty to shine!!   THE MEN!!   THE MEN!!!(I had to say it twice). What an awesome creation!!!   Thank you God!!  You have blessed us to be able to share the planet with them.  I love you, God loves you and Jesus is LORD!! ! Proverbs 2.