Creation Groans!

(Psalms 66:2) “Sing the glory of his name; give to him glorious praise!”

Jesus, Jesus Lord to me, Master Saviour Prince of peace, ruler of my heart today. Help me remember that today is the day on salvation and as your children Father God we must dress for battle. It is grace that will equip us to put ourselves aside and to focus on the well-being of others and we know that we shall be tested in this area of our lives. Help me, help us, I pray become more and more like our great Kind and Saviour and help us become doers of the Word and not just hearers. Lets us learn to lay down our lives just as He lay down His!

Once again I am away from the comforts of home; I sit in the Free State with the wind howling drowning out any attempts of the birds trying to dominate the airways, it is as if God now speaks through the wind, it is nevertheless very beautiful to behold as trees and branches aggressively sway from side to side; “For the creation waits with eager longing for the revealing of the sons of God.” (Roman 8:19): - Can you hear creation groaning as it awaits the adoption of Gods sons, do you wait eagerly for Christ’s return, and have you repented and believed on Him? Have you put aside all your false gods and dead idols? Repent as that day draws nearer, much nearer than you think!

And once again I struggle with my power supply, internet connection and all that goes with it trying to post this blog and yet even with this minor frustration God reigns Supreme, praise His Name, Yes speak great Jehovah, make your presence known and let the wind call it out with gusto! Some may miss it for now, but all will eventually bow! But your children will praise you and exalt you high above all the earth, we will praise you, I will praise you! Praise Him all you children of the earth and again I say praise Him! All the earth worships you and sings praises to you; they sing praises to your name. Come and see what God has done: He is awesome in his deeds toward the children of man, it was one thing to part the Red Sea, this was a great feat and yet He has far surpassed it in and through His Son our great Saviour, yes the Lord Jesus Christ has paid the price for our sin, bless His name! Do you believe this, if so will you now confess it to others?

“It is not left to our own option whether we shall praise God or not. Praise is God’s most righteous due, and every Christian, as the recipient of his grace, is bound to praise God from day to day. It is true we have no authoritative rubric for daily praise; we have no commandment prescribing certain hours of song and thanksgiving: but the law written upon the heart teaches us that it is right to praise God; and the unwritten mandate comes to us with as much force as if it had been recorded on the tables of stone, or handed to us from the top of thundering Sinai. Yes, it is the Christian’s duty to praise God. It is not only a pleasurable exercise, but it is the absolute obligation of his life. Think not ye who are always mourning, that ye are guiltless in this respect, or imagine that ye can discharge your duty to your God without songs of praise. You are bound by the bonds of his love to bless his name so long as you live, and his praise should continually be in your mouth, for you are blessed, in order that you may bless him; “this people have I formed for myself, they shall show forth my praise”; and if you do not praise God, you are not bringing forth the fruit which he, as the Divine Husbandman, has a right to expect at your hands. Let not your harp then hang upon the willows, but take it down, and strive, with a grateful heart, to bring forth its loudest music. Arise and chant his praise. With every morning’s dawn, lift up your notes of thanksgiving, and let every setting sun be followed with your song. Girdle the earth with your praises; surround it with an atmosphere of melody, and God himself will hearken from heaven and accept your music.” (C.H.Spurgeon)

“Even so I love thee, and will love,

And in thy praise will sing,

Because thou art my loving God,

And my redeeming King.”

May we never forget it is our duty to love our God because he first loved us, Thank you Lord Jesus for dying for a wretch like me!

Signing off

Tyrone