How Great Thou Art!!!

As I was riding home from the last night of Vacation Bible School at my church tonight, we were watching the awesome cloud-to-cloud lightning of a thunderstorm that had just passed over us. It was amazing -- you could see the navy sky with glittering stars, and then there was a huge fluffy-white cloud projecting some amazingly sharp lightning. I started thinking about how John Knowles described the stars in his book Indian Summer as not shiny objects in the sky, but holes poked through a dark covering so you could see tiny glimpses of Heaven’s light through them. And that’s what I meditated on… how God was saying, “Hey, look! Look at what I made! Look at how great I am. You’re only getting a tiny glimpse of how awesome I really am, and you’re still in awe of Me!”
I continued to think about how great my God is, and how it’s so awesome that He is indescribable and fathomless… Our God truly is great. So as I was watching the awesome lightning surrounded by a beautiful cloud and numberless stars, I remembered the words to an old hymn that Stuart K. Hine wrote while, coincidentally (or maybe not), he was caught in a barn during a big thunderstorm. “O Lord, my God, when I in awesome wonder consider all the works Thy hands have made, I see the stars; I hear the mighty thunder; Thy power throughout the universe displayed! Then sings my soul, my Savior God, to Thee: how great Thou art; how great Thou art! Then sings my soul, my Savior God, to Thee: how great Thou art; how great Thou art!”
You may not be in a thunderstorm right now. You may be in a drought praying for rain. Either way, look around you, and you will not have to look long before you find God’s glory displayed in His creation. It’s the same way with your life – you may be in a spiritual, emotional, physical, mental, whatever kind of storm. You may be at peace. But no matter what you’re going through, look for God’s glory, and praise Him for His work.
Have a great weekend! I’m praying for everyone who reads this – that means YOU!