Reflecting God – Monday, 25 November 2013
– “Always Right on Time” - Scripture Reading: Psalm 89: An Ethan Prayer 1-4 Your love, God, is my song, and I’ll sing it!
I’m forever telling everyone how faithful you are.
I’ll never quit telling the story of your
love—
how you built the cosmos
and guaranteed everything in it.
Your love has always been our lives’
foundation,
your fidelity has been the roof over our world.
You once said, “I joined forces with my
chosen leader,
I pledged my word to my servant, David, saying,
‘Everyone descending from you is
guaranteed life;
I’ll make your rule as solid and lasting as rock.’”
5-18 God! Let the cosmos praise your
wonderful ways,
the choir of holy angels sing anthems to your faithful ways!
Search high and low, scan skies and land,
you’ll find nothing and no one quite like God.
The holy angels are in awe before him;
he looms immense and august over everyone around him.
God-of-the-Angel-Armies, who is like you,
powerful and faithful from every angle?
You put the arrogant ocean in its place
and calm its waves when they turn unruly.
You gave that old hag Egypt the back of
your hand,
you brushed off your enemies with a flick of your wrist.
You own the cosmos—you made everything in
it,
everything from atom to archangel.
You positioned the North and South Poles;
the mountains Tabor and Hermon sing duets to you.
With your well-muscled arm and your grip
of steel—
nobody trifles with you!
The Right and Justice are the roots of
your rule;
Love and Truth are its fruits.
Blessed are the people who know the
passwords of praise,
who shout on parade in the bright presence of God.
Delighted, they dance all day long; they
know
who you are, what you do—they can’t keep it quiet!
Your vibrant beauty has gotten inside us—
you’ve been so good to us! We’re walking on air!
All we are and have we owe to God,
Holy God of Israel, our King!(The Message)
“Always right on Time” by Duane C. Brush
Astronomers study a type of star called a
pulsar. They pulse with a rotating beam of energy. Like a lighthouse on a dark
night these stars are only detectable when the beam is pointed toward the
observer. Some pulsars rotate so quickly and accurately that their pulses can
be used to measure time with greater precision than previously possible. In
2011 a pulsar clock was installed in St. Catherine’s Church in Gdansk, Poland.
The clock is linked to 16 radio telescope antennas and it compares signals from
six highly accurate pulsars. The result is believed to be, at the date of
installation, the world’s most accurate clock. It is projected not to gain or lose
one second in nearly 1.4 billion years!
The psalmist could have had no knowledge
of such precision in timekeeping. However, he perceived an eternally faithful
Lord in the heavens whose love stands firm forever. An error of even a second
in over a billion years is unreliable when compared to the faithful love of our
Lord.
“But when the set time had fully come,
God sent His Son,”(Galatians 4:4). Not a second too early, not a second too
late, God will never fail. Not in a billion-billion years!
Hymn for Today:
“The Love of God” by Frederick M. Lehman
1. The love of God is greater far
Than tongue or pen can ever tell;
It goes beyond the highest star,
And reaches to the lowest hell;
The guilty pair, bowed down with care,
God gave His Son to win;
His erring child He reconciled,
And pardoned from his sin.
Refrain:
Oh, love of God, how rich and pure!
How measureless and strong!
It shall forevermore endure—
The saints’ and angels’ song.
2. When hoary time shall pass away,
And earthly thrones and kingdoms fall,
When men who here refuse to pray,
On rocks and hills and mountains call,
God’s love so sure, shall still endure,
All measureless and strong;
Redeeming grace to Adam’s race—
The saints’ and angels’ song.
Refrain:
Oh, love of God, how rich and pure!
How measureless and strong!
It shall forevermore endure—
The saints’ and angels’ song.
3. Could we with ink the ocean fill,
And were the skies of parchment made,
Were every stalk on earth a quill,
And every man a scribe by trade;
To write the love of God above
Would drain the ocean dry;
Nor could the scroll contain the whole,
Though stretched from sky to sky.
Refrain:
Oh, love of God, how rich and pure!
How measureless and strong!
It shall forevermore endure—
The saints’ and angels’ song.
Thought for Today:
“For even if the mountains walk away
and the hills fall to pieces,
My love won’t walk away from you,
my covenant commitment of peace won’t fall apart.”
The God who has compassion on you says so.”(Isaiah 54:10)
Prayer Needs:
Many people in the United States and
Canada will come to know Jesus the Christ-Yeshua the Messiah and receive the
fullness of the Holy Spirit.
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Phone: (913)577-0500
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