I've really been trying to stop and smell the flowers in the past few days. Not so much stopping on a busy street and smelling some random rose bushes, but noticing the sunset or looking at a spider not as a nasty bug, but rather as a beautiful creature. How did God know that we would need spiders? How did He know to give us big trees to not only give us oxygen but to shade us on hot summer days. I'm so amazed that He knew that we would need clouds to carry rain and that we would need rain to help nourish our grass and trees and flowers. I'm so enthralled by everything He is, everything I'm not and everything His grace covers to make good. I mean think about it, we live on Earth, a very small part of a huge galaxy and made part of all kinds of other galaxies and universes that we haven't even discovered yet. And we are just sitting here spinning in orbit and not falling off or moving at all. We're just sitting. We don't need any type of device to keep us grounded, we are just here. Being on Earth we are at the perfect spot of our solar system. If we were any closer we'd burn up from the sun, and any further away we'd freeze. How did He know that we needed to be right here, sitting, not falling off a very round planet? In his book Crazy Love, Fancis Chan refers to such concepts. I'm so captivated to not even begin to wrap my mind around just how big He is.
"So—who is like me?
Who holds a candle to me?" says The Holy.
Look at the night skies:
Who do you think made all this?
Who marches this army of stars out each night,
counts them off, calls each by name
—so magnificent! so powerful!—
and never overlooks a single one?"
Isaiah 40:25-26 (The Message)
Take some time to smell the roses this week. I hope everyone's first week was blessed! I love you all more than you know!
Forever His,
EmilyJo
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