WERE YOU THERE?

SNIPPET

“As Paul Hawken keenly observed, Ralph Waldo Emerson once asked what we would do if the stars only came out once every thousand years. No one would sleep that night, of course.… We would be ecstatic, delirious, made rapturous by the glory of God. Instead, the stars come out every night and we watch television.”

― Louie Giglio, Indescribable: Encountering the Glory of God in the Beauty of the Universe

SCRIPTURE

Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked I will depart. The Lord gave and the Lord has taken away; may the name of the Lord be praised.” JOB 1:21 NIV

SONG

Where Were You GHOST SHIP

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I said God I do not understand this world

everything is dying and broken

why do I see nothing but suffering

God I'm asking could this be Your plan

Sin has taken hold of this whole land

Will You not say anything else to me?

He said where were you the day that I measured

sunk the banks and stretched the line over

all the earth and carved out its corner stone?

Where were you the day that I spoke and

told the sun to split the night open

caused the morning dark with its light to show

Who shut in the ocean with stone doors

marked the reach of tides on those new shores

hung the day the waves rose and first broke forth

Have you seen the springs of that great sea

walked the caverns carved in the black deep

through the gates of darkness there on its floor

Have you seen the armoury i hold

snow and hail are stacked up in silos

for the times of trouble and war and strife

Can you raise your voice to the storm cloud

would the thunder answer and ring out

does the lightning ask you where it should strike

Who has cleft the channels for torrents

rain to sprout the desert with forest

in the wilderness that my hand has built

Can you hunt the prey for your lions

can you use the cords of orion

is this whole world bending beneath your will?

I spoke of things I did not understand

things too wonderful for me

although I had no right to ask

my God knelt and answered me

Sentence Prayer

Eternal God;

Who are we that you even think of us?

Yet not only thought of died for our sins?

In Your Sovereignty you rule the universe.

In Your Grace you knelt to personally relate to us.

In response may I kneel in awe at the wonder around me,

That shouts God rules!  Amen