Reasons to praise

Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? – Job 38:4

How could we forget? How could we be so much like Job? How could we fail to be awestruck by God’s majesty?

Yet sometimes we do forget. And like Job, we need to hear anew the details of the wonders of God’s creative power.

Job’s suffering led him to doubt God, so our heavenly Father reminded him, and us, of His unfathomable ways:

• He laid the earth’s foundations (Job 38:4).

• He set the boundaries of the oceans (v. 8).

• He sends the morning sun (v. 12).

• He controls life and death (v. 17).

• He sends the snow, rain, and hail (vv. 22, 26, 40).

• He imprints knowledge on the heart (v. 36).

• He sets the time for the birth of animals (39: 1-3).

• He gives creatures like the ostrich their unusual ways of life (vv. 13-18).

• He instills the horse with great power (vv. 19-25).

• He directs the hawk and the eagle (vv. 26-30).

Each day, this earth shouts aloud a song of recognition of its Creator. Let’s take some time today to echo that tune and pour out our praise to our mighty Creator-God.

May we never forget God’s awesome majesty! – J. David Branon

Wind and water, light and sod

Speak so faithfully of God;

Let us give to Him our praise

For the goodness He displays. – Anon.

READ: Job 38:1-18

God’s work of creating is done;

our work of praising has just begun.