Wednesday 25 September 2013

Read: Ecclesiastes 3:11, Job 38:1-15

Have you ever been away from the lights of the city and looked up at all the stars in the night sky? Scientists estimate that on the clearest possible night we are able to see approximately 10,000 stars from Earth with the naked eye. However this is only a minuscule portion of the total stars in the sky. It is estimated that there are at least 100,000,000,000,000 (one hundred thousand million) stars in the Milky Way galaxy alone and millions and millions of other galaxies in the universe.

Now think about how this puts into perspective the words of Isaiah 40:12, "Who has measured the waters in the hollow of His hand, or with the breadth of His hand marked off the heavens?" Our God is the one who is able to measure off these incredible heavens and our amazing universe with the breadth of His hand!

 Not only this but our God is able to measure the waters (all of them) in the hollow of His hand, He is able to hold the dust of the Earth in a basket and able to weigh the mountains on scales! We serve an incredible, powerful and sovereign God. A God who created all things, controls all things and is able to do all things. A God whose power is beyond our imagination and whose ways are beyond our comprehension. We serve an indescribable God.

Solomon reminds us about our indescribable God in Ecclesiastes 3:10: "He has set eternity in the hearts of men; yet they cannot fathom what God has done from beginning to end."

In western culture we have a tendency to domesticate our God, to lose sight of just how incredible, powerful and indescribable He truly is. In doing so we miss out on just how amazing the Gospel of Jesus Christ truly is. The fact that such an all powerful God would choose to become a man to live amongst us, to suffer and to die so that we might have an intimate, personal relationship with Him should absolutely blow our minds. The same hands that measured the heavens and held all of the waters were stretched out and nailed to a cross. Spend some time this morning to meditate on God's incredible glory and praise Him for His indescribable grace to you.

Prayer: Write down your prayer points in the space provided. Use today’s reading to help you get ideas.

Adoration:

Confession:

Thanks:

Supplication:

ª Please continue to pray for Extreme Week Holiday Kids Club at Christlife. Pray that the children would be impacted by the love of God demonstrated to them and that they would take that impact home to their families. Pray that God would open and prepare hearts to hear about Him and that many families would turn to Him in repentance and faith.

ª Pray for all the small groups gathering throughout this week at your church. Pray that God would give each of them wisdom and insight into His word and that they would be strengthened and enabled to live what they learn.

My Additional Prayer Points.

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 Discussion Questions For Families and Groups

1. Together make a list of things that you can praise God for. Include things about who He is, what He has done through Christ and what He has done in your life. Spend some time praying through these things as a group and praising God. If you like, praise God using music as well.