Creation -The Silent Declaration of His Glory

Psalm 19:1-6
The heavens declare the glory of God;
    the skies proclaim the work of his hands.
² Day after day they pour forth speech;
    night after night they reveal knowledge.
³ They have no speech, they use no words;
    no sound is heard from them.
⁴ Yet their voice^[b] goes out into all the earth,
    their words to the ends of the world.
In the heavens God has pitched a tent for the sun.
⁵     It is like a bridegroom coming out of his chamber,
    like a champion rejoicing to run his course.
⁶ It rises at one end of the heavens
    and makes its circuit to the other;
    nothing is deprived of its warmth.

Background
It is amazing to me that the whole of creation just stands there declaring the glory of God our Creator and I we  have no guts to do it! All that the wonderful heavens, the majestic mountain, the gorgeous sun and everything around us even our human body does is, declares the Glory of our Magnificent Creator! Now this has been on my mind, to be a carrier of God's presence all the time (24x7) . I do not mean to carry His Presence in only the words I speak, but just in my being anywhere that I am supposed to be. What I mean to say is that I desperately desire to so shine before men that they may see my good works and glorify my Father in Heaven! I love what St Francis of Assissi said "Preach the gospel and if necessary use words". How many times I have been waiting for the right words to say to prove to someone that I am truly a follower of Jesus Christ. But why can't I just shine in and through My God's Presence that people will see and know without the shadow of a doubt, this woman has something about her that makes me think of God or reminds me of God or makes me feel peace, love, joy and brings me hope.

Lesson
God has designed us so beautifully and His works are so marvelous that we don't really need words to convey His Glory! What better way to show off God to the people around us but by being like Him! He is awesome and amazing and glorious and love and in His presence there is fullness of joy and hope and He is an ever present help and He is slow to anger and He is rich in mercy....and so so much more that words truly cannot describe!
On my journey as a wife one of the first words that God gave me three months into my marriage was
 1 Peter 3:1

3 Wives, in the same way submit yourselves to your own husbands so that, if any of them do not believe the word, they may be won over without words by the behavior of their wives, ² when they see the purity and reverence of your lives.

Boy did this make life easier for us. I was more joyful in being quiet than in being the blah blah girl I used to be. I had tried my best in using words to convince people of God's love with no real action to back it up. You know how that would backfire!

Conclusion
God could have called us anything existing in His Creation but He chose to call us the light of the world. Light does not speak, it just has the behaviour which can expel darkness merely by its presence.Or that God would liken us to be the salt of this earth, being the preservative and flavour amplifiers in food.  The salt's being in the food can be tasted and known even though you don't see it in the food it is mixed in.
More often than not, I have used my own efforts and become a lightning and thunder of this earth rather than the salt and light of this earth(Matthew 5:13, Acts 13:47)!

Dear Lord Jesus, help us in being the people you made us to be. Help us to be the bearers of your presence therefore truly becoming your TEMPLE that you may dwell in us richly and we may carry Your beautiful, life changing presence wherever you send us. Let your light so shine through us that people on this earth may see our good works, that you have prepared for us from the beginning, and give all glory to our Father in Heaven!
Amen

God Can Reach You

Psalm 18

Background
David wrote this Psalm when God gave him deliverance from all his enemies and also from Saul. David was a young man when he was anointed to be king by Samuel, but he did not immediately become a king! He was yet a shepherd boy and later, much later after a lot of running around and running away trying to save his life from Saul he would become the king of Israel at 30years of age.

¹⁶ He reached down from on high and took hold of me;
    he drew me out of deep waters.
¹⁷ He rescued me from my powerful enemy,
    from my foes, who were too strong for me.
¹⁸ They confronted me in the day of my disaster,
    but the Lord was my support.
¹⁹ He brought me out into a spacious place;
    he rescued me because he delighted in me.

Lesson
God knows how to rescue His people. People who are determined in being set apart for God their King. More than that God reaches out to people who cry out to Him, cling on to Him, completely lean on Him for their very existence. Such is our God who is a JUST God. His justice is beautiful and God is indignant daily, I love this verse I came upon from Psalm 7:11 God is a righteous Judge, yes, a God Who is indignant every day. It bothers God to see His children (the ones who acknowledge God as their Heavenly Father) in trouble. God cares about everything we are going through, He feels us, He knows us in His very being because we are living and moving and have our being in Him.

Conclusion
If you thought God does not know what you are going through, try calling upon God, ask for His forgiveness for the sins that has kept you apart from His presence and ask Him to bring His Justice to your situation, for HE KNOWS what you are going through even better that you do. He will not override the will of man. Unless you call upon Him and grant Him access to your life, yield to His work to set things right in your life in His ALL KNOWING way...He is waiting on your call to Him.

I love these verses from 2Peter2:4-9⁴ For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but sent them to hell,^[a] putting them in chains of darkness^[b] to be held for judgment; ⁵ if he did not spare the ancient world when he brought the flood on its ungodly people, but protected Noah, a preacher of righteousness, and seven others; ⁶ if he condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah by burning them to ashes, and made them an example of what is going to happen to the ungodly; ⁷ and if he rescued Lot, a righteous man, who was distressed by the depraved conduct of the lawless ⁸ (for that righteous man, living among them day after day, was tormented in his righteous soul by the lawless deeds he saw and heard)— ⁹ if this is so, then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials and to hold the unrighteous for punishment on the day of judgment

Take heart my friend, God knows what trouble you are in and He is more than capable in fixing anything we have messed up. If only we would invite God into our lives and situations and ask Him to turn it around and then wait on Him as He instructs us on His protocols to get us out and help us land on clear ground, just as David did in this Psalm 18: 19 "He brought me out into a spacious place;" God will bring you out into a spacious place. Ask God to come and rescue you today!