What God Gives Us

93,10-3, SHOW  NOTES & COPYRIGHTS,  (Scheduled 3/2/2023)Revised 2/26/2023Today we will be reading and discussing poems about what God gives us.AS ONLY YOU CAN  (Living In God’s Rhyme, pg. 116)I look at the clouds and I wonder aloudWhat lies beyond the skies?What ever can be though looking I cannot see.I look at the wonder of it all and I hear your call.Beyond the skies is Heaven above,Where there are no whys, just your love.But first we share in this world of oursFor what we care in each day’s hours.The mountains, the valleys,The meadows, the deserts,And the vast deep waters,They all exist inside of us.You spoke the earth into existence,You breathed your breath into man,Your power knew no resistance.It was only and is only you who can.May we live in your glory,Be a part of your story.May we every day striveTo have you in our lives.May we see the splendor,Of all you do, of who we areAs we shine brighter than the starsWhen we let you, Lord, be who you are.Discussion:THE WONDER OF GOD’S WAY  (Living In God’s Rhyme, pg. 182)God’s love is shown and Jesus is knownAs the words of King David are heardMany years after and many years before,After the creation and before the resurrection.In times of grace and in time of wasteGod’s love for us never falters, never fails.His is a love we may never understand,While on this earth we are merely man.David writes:the LORD is compassionate and gracious,slow to anger; abounding in love.He will not always accuse,nor will he harbor his anger forever; he does not treat us as our sins deserveor repay us according to our iniquities.For as high as the heavens are above the earth,so great is his love for those who fear him;as far as the east is from the west,so far has he removed our transgressions from us.(Psalm 103:7-12)How can we on this earth understand this love?We live our lives struggling for love While we struggle at times to give our love.We shake our neighbor’s hands with winter gloves.If we have fear for the Lord, the awe and respect he deserves,We have opened the door to our hearts to receive his grace,If we truly believe and accept this and are not reservedIn our faith, he is faithful to forgive and remember never.Be thankful that as Isaiah writes of God,For my thoughts are not your thoughts,neither are your ways my ways.”declares the LORD .As the heavens are higher than the earth,so are my ways higher than your waysand my thoughts than your thoughts.(Isaiah 55:8,9)Live in awe filled wonder and his voice will not thunderBecause of who he is, as we live, he forgives.By faith through his grace, we have the gift to forever liveThrough the death of his Son, who took upon himself our sin.Be thankful God is who he is and always will be,Be thankful God loves you and loves me,Be thankful God created us in loveSo by believing we will see him in heaven above.God so loves us that he sent his only Son to die for our transgressions.If his ways were our ways, we would still be dying in those transgressions.Be thankful and accept his love,