LORD Creator - Yahweh Borey

One of my favorite psalms this time of year is:
PS 8:1 O LORD, our Lord,
how majestic is your name in all the earth!
You have set your glory above the heavens.
PS 8:2 From the lips of children and infants
you have ordained praise because of your enemies,
to silence the foe and the avenger.
PS 8:3 When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers,
the moon and the stars, which you have set in place,
PS 8:4 what is man that you are mindful of him,
the son of man that you care for him?
PS 8:5 You made him a little lower than the heavenly beings
and crowned him with glory and honor.
PS 8:6 You made him ruler over the works of your hands;
you put everything under his feet: 7 all flocks and herds,
and the beasts of the field, 8 the birds of the air,
and the fish of the sea, all that swim the paths of the seas.
PS 8:9 O LORD, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth!

Albert Einstein said, “The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.”

Our God has laid out this world for us. From the very beginning God had a plan, and it was to please us. As we read the Bible, after God made the structure, the rocks we stand on; then poured over it the water that is necessary for life; He began to create beauty. Notice:
3rd Day: “Let the land produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and trees”
4th Day: “let them serve as signs to mark seasons and days and years”
5th Day: “Let the water teem with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the sky”
6th Day: “Let the land produce living creatures according to their kinds”
7th Day: “By the seventh day God had finished the work he had been doing; so on the seventh day he rested from all his work. And God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it he rested from all the work of creating that he had done.”
That means to ENJOY!
Have you ever worked on a major project, when it is done, you don’t just rest, you admire and are thankful.

GE 1:26 Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move along the ground."
GE 1:27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. 28 God blessed them and said to them, "Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and over every living creature that moves on the ground."
GE 1:29 Then God said, "I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food. 30 And to all the beasts of the earth and all the birds of the air and all the creatures that move on the ground--everything that has the breath of life in it--I give every green plant for food." And it was so. 31 God saw all that he had made, and it was very good. …

One of our shortcomings as humans is perfectionism. We often spend so much time perfecting what will do, that we don’t take the 7th day to rest, to observe and give thanks for all that God has done.

JOB 37:1 "At this my heart pounds and leaps from its place.
JOB 37:2 Listen! Listen to the roar of his voice, to the rumbling that comes from his mouth. 3 He unleashes his lightning beneath the whole heaven and sends it to the ends of the earth. 4 After that comes the sound of his roar; he thunders with his majestic voice. When his voice resounds, he holds nothing back. 5 God's voice thunders in marvelous ways; he does great things beyond our understanding. 6 He says to the snow, `Fall on the earth,' and to the rain shower, `Be a mighty downpour.' 7 So that all men he has made may know his work,

Yahweh Borey, LORD Creator. All of this causes us to worship. Not the Creation, but the Creator. God could have made things in a very utilitarian way, but He did not. God made all things for us to enjoy. We worship in Thanksgiving, LORD Creator.

PS 19:1 The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands.

The sad thing is, as Paul tells us: RO 1:20 Since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities--his eternal power and divine nature--have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse. 21 For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. 22 Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools 23 and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles.
Lord, cause us to pray for the Lost!

Through the LORD Creator, we can pray for the sick, knowing that it is God who made us, and can help us heal (put us back together).
ISA 40:27 Why do you say, O Jacob, and complain, O Israel,
"My way is hidden from the LORD; my cause is disregarded by my God"?
ISA 40:28 Do you not know? Have you not heard?
The LORD is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth.
He will not grow tired or weary, and his understanding no one can fathom.

St. Patrick's Day

Who is St. Patrick?
A. A brawny man who can drink more than his share of green beer
B. The folk hero who chased the snakes out of Ireland
C. A Celtic Druid Priest who is the Patron Saint of Ireland
D. None of the above…

We live in a world where many people choose to believe folk tales or a lie.
As Christians, it is important we look up and share what is the truth, and in the case of St. Patrick, it is easy to find out the truth … He writes about his life in his "Confessions."

Patrick was born in England about AD 389. He was raised in a Christian home, but did not follow in the ways of his parents. At about 16 years old he was kidnapped and taken to Ireland, where he became a slave. He herded sheep for a number of years, and in the fields rediscovered God. The Lord helped him escape his captors. He was taken by ship to France, where he spent time in a monastery learning to share the Gospel. From there he returned to England.
In England he heard the call of God to take the Gospel to Ireland. He became “a fisher of men,” taking the Gospel where it had never been heard and reached many of the Irish including their chieftains. Patrick writes in his Confessions: “So, it is that in Ireland, where they never had any knowledge of God but, always, until now, cherished idols and unclean things, they are lately become a people of the Lord, and are called children of God”

So the truth is that Patrick was a Priest and a missionary for Jesus Christ who took the Gospel to a pagan nation, and on this day we celebrate the life of a man who accomplished great things for God.

In this world of lies, gossip and innuendos, it is always best to go to the source, go to the source or the person to get the truth. "Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free." JN 8:32

El-Roi – God Sees Me

The first use of this name for God is found in Genesis 16:1-16
. GE 16:13 She gave this name to the LORD who spoke to her: "You are the God who sees me," for she said, "I have now seen the One who sees me." 14 That is why the well was called Beer Lahai Roi; it is still there, between Kadesh and Bered.
. The story is about a slave girl, a foreigner, who is asked to sleep with her master’s husband. She gets pregnant, and is despised by her master.

“God Sees Me” has a personal touch about it. For God does see each one of us …
. 2CH 16:9 For the eyes of the LORD range throughout the earth to strengthen those whose hearts are fully committed to him. …
. PS 33:18 But the eyes of the LORD are on those who fear him, on those whose hope is in his unfailing love
. God sees all … God sees the rich, God sees the poor. God saw Harar, this poor woman found forgiveness. God sees the old Old. God sees the Young. God sees the Good. God sees the bad.

Does it un-nerve you that God Sees Me – all of me? (God not only sees, but he hears. Did you know Ishmael means: God hears me) God does not just see me, God hears me.
. PS 94:8 Take heed, you senseless ones among the people; you fools, when will you become wise? 9 Does he who implanted the ear not hear? Does he who formed the eye not see?
. Read - Psalm 139:1-16.
. God sees where you go, He sees what you do. He hears what you say, God even knows what you think!
JER 23:23-24 "Am I only a God nearby," declares the LORD, "and not a God far away? Can anyone hide in secret places so that I cannot see him?" declares the LORD. "Do not I fill heaven and earth?" declares the LORD.

It is only because God cares (yes, God cared for Hagar) the God even looks at us. It is really for our best that God sees us. God Loves us. God sent His only Son to die for us. God wants us to Love Him ~ and God desires us to live for Him. If we do, God Sees ... present and future.
. As God sees, He is our Shepherd, Our Guide, Our Protector. It is all good.
. Thank You Lord, for being the God who sees. El-Roi.