FROM TODAY'S READING...
NOTE: My morning personal devotional reading has been in Genesis. "Genesis-Beginning and Blessing" by R. Kent Hughes has served as my primary commentary source. Recent reading gave me cause to pause and more deeply ponder God's presence in my life. Here are some contemplative questions one is seriously asked to consider...
Do you believe that God will be with you?
Do you believe that he will be with you in what you are facing this week, this month, this year?
Do you believe that God is with you—spatially, specially, right now in your hurt, in your adversity?
And do you believe that God has been with you all of these years in the ups and downs?
Psalms 139:7-12 (NLT) I can never escape from your Spirit! I can never get away from your presence! If I go up to heaven, you are there; if I go down to the grave, you are there. If I ride the wings of the morning, if I dwell by the farthest oceans, even there your hand will guide me, and your strength will support me. I could ask the darkness to hide me and the light around me to become night— but even in darkness I cannot hide from you. To you the night shines as bright as day. Darkness and light are the same to you.
Hebrews 4:13 (NLT) Nothing in all creation is hidden from God. Everything is naked and exposed before his eyes, and he is the one to whom we are accountable.
Colossians 1:15-17 (NLT) Christ is the visible image of the invisible God. He existed before anything was created and is supreme over all creation, for through him God created everything in the heavenly realms and on earth. He made the things we can see and the things we can’t see— such as thrones, kingdoms, rulers, and authorities in the unseen world. Everything was created through him and for him. He existed before anything else, and he holds all creation together.
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