Care's Counterbalance...Creator's Kindness

Let's pray in these times-like-never-before where nations are turning from God like never beforethat we who believe commit to seeing, hearing, obeying,relying on and worshipping Him like never before... Many are the witnesses of faith we may look to for courage, chiefly Jesus!! Heb.12:1-2Therefore we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. When we delight in the beauty of creationit is not hard to believe that our Creator God is awesome above all else!! I Remember the former things of old:for I am God, and there is none else; I am God, and there is none like me, Sometimes life’s woes could blind us to God’s kindnesses unfurledTo counterbalance creature cares in a care-laden worldHe tunes heaven and earth with boons too manifold to countHe woos us to drink deeply from June’s leaf and flower fount Where once again He clothes the land with garb of seed and budTo manifest His evidence, creation shouts His nameTo quench credence to atheism’s cold and calloused claim He comforts us with colours only His thought can composeAnd sweetens Heaven-hunger with reason only He knowsWhere each season showcases masterpieces, mercy-lentWhere nothing in this world replaces Goodness, mercy-bent To well in us, in spite of aches and pangs that sting and pressA worship-bidden, wonder-smitten hymn of happinessOf reverence and honour to He from Whom blessings pourTo awe and cheer us onward to the joy still set before ...to capture our attention with surprises full of graceTo lavish wounds of learning with fond glimpses of His face To never let life blind us to He who is kind and goodWhose invisible qualities are clearly understood © Janet Martin Rom.1:20For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature— have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse. Oh God!!! May I/we never live unawed!