Daily Hope: Encouraging Words from Scripture

TUESDAY, 27 AUGUST 2024

TEXT: Psalm 104:1-12

1. Let all that I am praise the LORD. O LORD my God, how great you are! You are robbed with honor and majesty.

2. You are dressed in a robe of light. You stretch out the starry curtain of the heavens;

3. you lay out the rafters of your home in the rain clouds. You make the clouds your chariot; you ride upon the wings of the wind.

4. The winds are your messengers; flames of fire are your servants.

5. You placed the world on its foundation so it would never be moved.

6. You clothed the earth with floods of water, water that covered even the mountains.

7. At your command, the water fled; at the sound of your thunder, it hurried away.

8. Mountains rose and valleys sank to the levels you decreed.

9. Then you set a firm boundary for the seas, so they would never again cover the earth.

10. you make springs pour water into the ravines, so streams gush down from the mountains.

11. They provide water for all the animals, and the wild donkeys quench their thirst.

12. The birds nest beside the streams and sing among the branches of the trees.

(English Standard Version Holy Bible)

TOPIC: TAKE CARE OF GOD’S UNIVERSE

God’s greatness is portrayed in many ways through His creative activities on the face of the earth.

When we carefully look at the trees, mountains, seas, clouds and many other things that God has arranged in their respective positions, we see the expressions of order and greatness.

In today’s passage, the Psalmist describes the greatness of God through His creative works. God set the foundation of the earth in a way that no one can ever move it.

He brought the waters upon the earth not only to beautify His creative wok but to also provide for the beasts of the fields. No wonder, the wild donkeys drink from the water to quench their thirst, the birds of the sky nest by the waters and sing amongst the branches.

Therefore, we need to appreciate the importance of everything that God has created and strive to glorify Him by keeping these things intact to fulfil their reasons for existence.

QUESTION: Do you protect or destroy the things God has created?

PRAYER: Help me, dear God, to fulfil my role of taking care of the things You have created so that the other creatures can benefit from them, in Jesus name. Amen.