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Enjoy the View

    When you look around at nature, it is hard to deny God's handiwork. It is easy to get taken away with the beauties of nature-- the sea, thunder and lightning, the clouds in the sky. I love thinking of Him in the every day scenes He paints for us. Did you know that all of creation is praising Him? The earth and the sky sing to our creator. What a wonderful thing to think that when we praise Him,  all creation is joining in our song! 

    We have a God who is a master artist. The One who designed the heavens and the earth also created you. And He made you in His own image, far more beautiful than the views we enjoy in nature every day. If you think the stars and the ocean are a wondrous sight, consider that God made you even more lovely than they. Remember that you were created as a reflection of Him on earth. When you see the work of His hand around you, remember your beauty in Him. As you go through your day today, don't forget to stop and enjoy the view. 

Psalm 19:1 The heavens declare the glory of God, and the sky above proclaims his handiwork. (ESV)

Romans 1:20 For ever since the world was created, people have seen the earth and sky. Through everything God made, they can clearly see his invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature. (NLT)

Job 12:7-10 But ask the beasts, and they will teach you; the birds of the heavens, and they will tell you; or the bushes of the earth, and they will teach you; and the fish of the sea will declare to you. Who among all these does not know that the hand of the Lord has done this? In his hand is the life of every living thing and the breath of all mankind. (ESV)

Isaiah 55:12 For you shall go out in joy and be led forth in peace; the mountains and the hills before you shall break forth into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands. (ESV)

Psalm 96:11-12 Let the heavens be glad, and let the earth rejoice; let the sea roar, and all that fills it; let the field exult, and everything in it! Then shall all the trees of the forest sing for joy (ESV)

Psalm 8:3-4 When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, what is man that you are mindful of him, and the son of man that you care for him? (ESV)

Genesis 1:27 So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them. (NIV)

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