God's Creation

I had said several weeks back (actually, now that I am thinking of it- it was last year) that it says in the book of Job that all of creation is but the fringes of God's glory and power. Friday evening, Courtney and I were driving through town and saw the amazing beauty of God's creation.

 

God is so awesome! I love clouds... something about them makes me just sit in awe. I could honestly stare at this scene or hours. Of course, this only lasts for maybe 30 minutes. This brings a sense of fear and trembling over me. The knowledge of how small we are in the scope of things. If you have time, check out this video:

Blessed Be Your Name

This past Sunday morning I got to the school a little early. I had planned to just sit and pray and spend time with Jesus. I sat in my truck and began singing along with Matt Redman "Blessed Be Your Name." As I was singing, I got a little hot, so I turned the truck off. After another few minutes or so, I started getting cold again. I went to start my truck again and it would not crank! "AWESOME!" is all I could say to myself. I started getting really mad and asking God why. "Why is my truck not starting, what did I do??" (yeah, I know...it gets better...)

A few minutes later, Paul drove up beside me and asked if I needed a ride, and I just said I would walk. So I got my stuff that wasn't too heavy to carry and began the walk to the school. About half way to the school door, I started praying and telling God I was sorry that I had neglected Him. Here I was saying "when the darkness closes in, Lord still I will say blessed be Your name!" But I am getting upset about my freakin truck not starting. Things could have been SO much worse! So I just started thanking God for letting me breathe and live another day.

I looked back at my truck and saw that my interior light was on. "Great, now the battery is definitely going to be fried." So I started walking BACK to my truck to turn the light off. I continued to thank God that he has blessed me so much, even if my truck never started again, I was still blessed beyond measure because HE sent HIS son to DIE for me so that I could be with HIM forever!

When I got back to my truck, I opened the door and said to myself, "I'll give it one more try." IT CRANKED!

Thank you Jesus for allowing me to realize that my truck doesn't matter to You and shouldn't be such a huge part of my life. I was putting my truck not starting in between You and I. I can be so selfish sometimes. I can become so consumed with stupid petty things that I miss God.

This story may seem dumb to you, but I truly feel like I experienced a touch from God. I mean honestly, I tried cranking my truck over and over and over again before I started walking. It was not cranking anytime soon. It wasn't my battery because everything was turning on, it just wasn't turning over...DO NOT BELITTLE GOD! He is in control of the smallest and LARGEST things! He will get your attention if He needs to...trust me.

The Power of God

I was amazed yesterday as I watched for about an hour the devastation that was taking place in New Orleans. Obviously it was not as bad as Katrina in '05, but it was still amazing! This morning, out of curiosity, I checked the weather.com site to see what was going on with it. This is what I saw:

there are THREE more storms headed our way. The one closest to Africa looks pretty big, and it's only just formed.

I am just so amazed at God's power and wonder. It is hard at times to believe that God controls all of the storms, all the rain, all the wind, the earth's rotation, the atmosphere, EVERYTHING, He holds it all together. Then, he still reaches out His hand to help me in the times I am about to give up. He sends His Son, Jesus, to die a horrifying death on a freakin cross for me. That is amazing!