God simply yet most powerfully spoke the universe in existence.  He created everything from nothing.

God wants our faith to be strong in Him.  When we have nothing or no answer, we look to God and trust and rest in His reply.

There is holy confidence in Jesus. As Christians don’t give up. Be steadfast in the things of God.

Hebrews 10:

20 By his death, Jesus opened a new and life-giving way through the curtain into the Most Holy Place. 21 And since we have a great High Priest who rules over God’s house, 22 let us go right into the presence of God with sincere hearts fully trusting him. For our guilty consciences have been sprinkled with Christ’s blood to make us clean, and our bodies have been washed with pure water.

23 Let us hold tightly without wavering to the hope we affirm, for God can be trusted to keep his promise. 24 Let us think of ways to motivate one another to acts of love and good works. 25 And let us not neglect our meeting together, as some people do, but encourage one another, especially now that the day of his return is drawing near.

In the Old Testament God used animals sacarefully sacrificed on the alter in the temple of God to cover the sins of people but that system was not good enough. Jesus completely fulfilled the needed sin sacrifice when with a sinless life He died on the cross  for all humanity– past, present and future.

Hebrews 10:

12 But our High Priest offered himself to God as a single sacrifice for sins, good for all time. Then he sat down in the place of honor at God’s right hand. 13 There he waits until his enemies are humbled and made a footstool under his feet. 14 For by that one offering he forever made perfect those who are being made holy.

15 And the Holy Spirit also testifies that this is so. For he says,

16 “This is the new covenant I will make
with my people on that day,[a] says the Lord:
I will put my laws in their hearts,
and I will write them on their minds.”
17 Then he says,

“I will never again remember
their sins and lawless deeds.”

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God delivers people from depression and hopelessness. Cry out to God in hard times.

Psalm 107:

10 Some sat in darkness and deepest gloom,
imprisoned in iron chains of misery.
11 They rebelled against the words of God,
scorning the counsel of the Most High.
12 That is why he broke them with hard labor;
they fell, and no one was there to help them.
13 “Lord, help!” they cried in their trouble,
and he saved them from their distress.
14 He led them from the darkness and deepest gloom;
he snapped their chains.
15 Let them praise the Lord for his great love
and for the wonderful things he has done for them.
16 For he broke down their prison gates of bronze;
he cut apart their bars of iron.

Gods love for His people is great.  The Israelites were supposed to go in and destroy the people in the Promised Land instead they became like them and worshiped their idols. This angered God but time and time again He would save them when they would cry out for help.

Psalm 106:

Israel failed to destroy the nations in the land,
as the Lord had commanded them.
35 Instead, they mingled among the pagans
and adopted their evil customs.
36 They worshiped their idols,
which led to their downfall.
37 They even sacrificed their sons
and their daughters to the demons.
38 They shed innocent blood,
the blood of their sons and daughters.
By sacrificing them to the idols of Canaan,
they polluted the land with murder.
39 They defiled themselves by their evil deeds,
and their love of idols was adultery in the Lord’s sight.
40 That is why the Lord’s anger burned against his people,
and he abhorred his own special possession.
41 He handed them over to pagan nations,
and they were ruled by those who hated them.
42 Their enemies crushed them
and brought them under their cruel power.
43 Again and again he rescued them,
but they chose to rebel against him,
and they were finally destroyed by their sin.
44 Even so, he pitied them in their distress
and listened to their cries.
45 He remembered his covenant with them
and relented because of his unfailing love.
46 He even caused their captors
to treat them with kindness.
47 Save us, O Lord our God!
Gather us back from among the nations,
so we can thank your holy name
and rejoice and praise you.

Today I found fresh revelation from God.  It was tucked away in an Old Testament book with seemingly never ending chapters and dry reading.

In the book of Ezekiel, God’s people were forced to leave their home and were exiled into Babylon because their sin toward God was so great. But God told them through Ezekiel He would restore their prosperity.  He would lift them up from their lowly and humiliating state.

God gave His people a message of restoration.

Ezekiel 16:

53 “But someday I will restore the fortunes of Sodom and Samaria, and I will restore you, too.

Then He used this comparison to help them better understand.

Ezekiel 17:

22 “This is what the Sovereign Lord says: I will take a branch from the top of a tall cedar, and I will plant it on the top of Israel’s highest mountain. 23 It will become a majestic cedar, sending forth its branches and producing seed. Birds of every sort will nest in it, finding shelter in the shade of its branches. 24 And all the trees will know that it is I, the Lord, who cuts the tall tree down and makes the short tree grow tall. It is I who makes the green tree wither and gives the dead tree new life. I, the Lord, have spoken, and I will do what I said!”

Rejoice in God.  He takes care of His own.

Psalm 106:4-5

4 Remember me, Lord, when you show favor to your people;
come near and rescue me.
5 Let me share in the prosperity of your chosen ones.
Let me rejoice in the joy of your people;
let me praise you with those who are your heritage.

God provided in many ways for the Israelites when they left Egypt and headed toward the Promised Land. They were descendants of Abraham and He kept the promise He made to Abraham with them.  Christians are descendants of Abraham.  In our life’s journey for God, He amply provides.

It’s interesting to read through these verses and count the variety of ways God abundantly provided.

Psalm 105:

The Lord brought his people out of Egypt, loaded with silver and gold;
and not one among the tribes of Israel even stumbled.
38 Egypt was glad when they were gone,
for they feared them greatly.
39 The Lord spread a cloud above them as a covering
and gave them a great fire to light the darkness.
40 They asked for meat, and he sent them quail;
he satisfied their hunger with manna—bread from heaven.
41 He split open a rock, and water gushed out
to form a river through the dry wasteland.
42 For he remembered his sacred promise
to his servant Abraham.
43 So he brought his people out of Egypt with joy,
his chosen ones with rejoicing.
44 He gave his people the lands of pagan nations,
and they harvested crops that others had planted.
45 All this happened so they would follow his decrees
and obey his instructions.
Praise the Lord!

This National Geographic video gives the details of the big struggle an eagle goes through around the age of 40.  It must choose putting forth the effort to live or give up and die.