When I Consider Your Heavens
Seeing the Northern Lights (or Aurora Borealis) is often said to be a breath-taking experience. Earlier this year, I traveled to Rovaniemi, a town in Finland, to see this amazing sight! Not only did I get to see the Northern Lights dance across the sky, I also saw, for the first time in my life, a sky full of stars. It was truly breathtaking.
As I stood underneath this spectacular sight, the following verse came to mind:
“When I consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers,
The moon and the stars, which You have ordained,
What is man that You are mindful of him,
And the son of man that You visit him?
For You have made him a little lower than the angels,
And You have crowned him with glory and honor.”
- Psalm 8:3-5
Even though the Northern Lights were a breathtaking sight, what continues to awe me today is that the Creator of this wonderful phenomenon would take the time to care for me. And I can’t help but echo the psalmist in praising our wonderful Creator! “O Lord, our Lord, how excellent is Your name in all the earth!”
For You Created All Things
I took this picture a few years back during a holiday in Melbourne. I really like this picture because it captures much of the majesty in nature: the sun, waves and rock formations. I guess the ability to learn the intricacies behind all the wonderful things in nature is part of the reason why I enjoy Geography so much!
“You are worthy, O Lord,
To receive glory and honor and power;
For You created all things,
And by Your will they exist and were created.”
- Revelation 4:11
When I look at God’s wonderful creation and see the might and intricacies present in each created thing, I stand in amazement and wonder. And I too proclaim that He is worthy to receive all glory, honour and power.
Immutable Promises
I love baking and not long ago, I found a recipe for a rainbow cake, which I made!
I really love rainbows! But not just because they are pretty (though that is a major factor), but because they represent an important promise that God gave to Noah, that He would never flood the earth again. And everytime I see a rainbow, I am reminded that God keeps His promise! (:
“Thus God, determining to show more abundantly to the heirs of promise the immutability of His counsel, confirmed it by an oath, that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we might have strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold of the hope set before us.”
- Hebrews 6:17-18
I am so glad that I have a God whose promises are immutable that I can have strong consolation in His wonderful, unchanging, everlasting promises!
