In Case You Need to Be Reminded

I am blessed to work in a place where people pray together, regularly.  Each Wednesday morning, we are invited to meet together for prayer and devotions led by various staff members.  Today, our administrative assistant shared from Isaiah 41:18-20, then read the quote copied below.  If you’re in need today of a reminder of just how extravagant God’s love and care for you are, I cannot encourage you strongly enough to shut your doors, turn down your music, and read these words aloud. 


I will make rivers flow on barren heights, 
and springs within the valleys. 
I will turn the desert into pools of water, 
and the parched ground into springs.


I will put in the desert 
the cedar and the acacia, the myrtle and the olive. 
I will set pines in the wasteland, 
the fir and the cypress together,


so that people may see and know, 
may consider and understand, 
that the hand of the LORD has done this, 
that the Holy One of Israel has created it. - Isaiah 41:18-20


We are profoundly impressed with the unlimited resources of the God of the Bible.  He never does anything small.  When He makes an ocean He makes it so deep that no man can fathom it.  When He makes a mountain He makes it so large that no one can measure or weigh it.  When He makes flowers, He scatters multiplied millions of them where there is no one to admire them but Himself.  When He makes grace, He makes it without sides or bottom and leaves the top off.  Instead of giving salvation with a medicine dropper, He pours it forth like a river. 


When God sets out to do a thing for us, He does it with a prodigality of love-prompted abundance that fairly staggers one who reckons things by the coldly calculating standards of earth.

Lettie B. Cowman (1870-1960)