You know that feeling when your heart just seems to swell way beyond it’s normal size just because something seem so momentous that you can’t seem to contain it in your soul. Your emotions soar and your whole being cries out to God because He is so good and so amazing.
Acts 17:24 reads: “He is the God who made the world and everything in it. Since he is Lord of heaven and earth, he doesn’t live in man-made temples.” That is how I felt at 3:30 this morning. I woke up and after having a drink of water looked out of the bedroom window. The sight of the night sky was so amazing it took my breath away. The stars were so bright and they looked to big it was just too much for me to take in. I put on my dressing gown and left the house. I stood in the garden and stared up at the sky. There was a crescent moon and even though the street lights were burning they didn’t detract from the brightness of the stars. Isaiah 40:26 says “Look up into the heavens. Who created all the stars? He brings them out like and army, one after another, calling each by its name. Because of his great power and incomparable strength, not a single one is missing.” I could feel the greatness, the immensity and the enormity of God’s power while I was watching creation. My soul sang and my heart was full; how could anyone see this and doubt that there is a God who created it all?
My daughter took this photo of a night sky; she has given me permission to use it.
This afternoon I decided to water my garden because we’ve had a few days of sunshine. Here where we live seasons are a little bit of a joke. We live in between the summer and winter rainfall areas, and whether that is the reason or not I have no idea, but seasons are just a vague reference to the weather we actually experience. People often say we can have four seasons in one day. Children don’t really understand why they have to learn about spring and autumn at school because they last for about a week. During winter it can get quite cold and we even have frost sometimes, but temperatures have been known to soar to the high 20’s – that’s Celcius. During summer the same story. I never even think of packing away clothes I won’t need for a season, because the chance that I will need them is very real. Most of us have become experts at layering.
Ok, back to the point. When I looked at the garden I realized that it has actually become a real garden. When I started it from nothing – just bare earth – and the first seeds germinated I was so excited, but it still looked like nothing. Now it really looks like a garden. I felt so overwhelmed by emotion. I’m just wondering what God felt like when He created the earth out of nothing …
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