Category Archives: Images

Photos of Creation

Perfectly Calm in Christ

Mark 4:39 and Lake Polly, The Boundary Waters, Minnesota

“And He got up and rebuked the wind and said to the sea, “Hush, be still.” And the wind died down and it became perfectly calm.” Mark 4:39

Perfectly Calm Through Christ

In Mark 4 Jesus calms the storm and the Sea of Galilee demonstrating He has power over nature. As Great as a miracle that may seem, it may even be a greater miracle to calm the storms in us. As verses 40 and 41 point out, When Jesus calmed the wind and waves, He did not calm the storm in His own disciples. After they witnessed this great power in Him verse 41 says, “They became very much afraid.”

Sometimes the storms around us rage. When that happens our insides may rage all the more. But as our loving God, Jesus is truly powerful enough to calm the storms inside us as they rage around us. And when He calms us, just as calm water reflects an image in it, our calmness reflects the image of Christ to others.

Don’t forget, my new devotional book Drawing Near:Meeting God in His Creation is now available to purchase wherever you like to buy books online.

No Limits to God

Job 11:7-9 and Mount Katahdin from a Nearby Lake in Maine.

Mount Katahdin from a Nearby Lake in Maine and Job 11:7-9. There no limits to God“Can you discover the depths of God? Can you discover the limits of the Almighty? They are high as the heavens, what can you do? Deeper than Sheol, what can you know? Its measure is longer than the earth and broader than the sea.” Job 11:7-9

A God with No Limits

In his suffering Job was rebuked by three friends, Zophar, Eliphaz and Bildad. Most of the time Job’s friends were wrong, but in this passage of scripture Job’s friend Zophar got it right. Our transcendent, infinite God exists with no limits.

This landscape photograph of a distant Mount Katahdin hints of the mountains greatness. But no matter how great a mountain is, it only hints of the greatness of God. Nothing and no one comes close to matching our limitless God.

Read more of the book of Job chapter 11

Walk Worthy

Ephesians 4:1 & a Foot Bridge, Table in Wilderness Camp, Snowy Range Mountains, Wyoming.

“Therefore I, the prisoner of the Lord, urge you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling with which you have been called.” Ephesians 4:1 

Walk Worthy of God’s Calling

The Apostle Paul wrote in Ephesians 2:8-9 that God saves believers by His grace and not by our works. We don’t have to do good works to get to Heaven. Christ gets us there because our good works can’t get us there.

But does that mean we should live any old way? Not at all.

In Ephesians 4:1 Paul urges believers “to walk in a manner worthy of the calling” given us. In the previous chapters he writes of the great things God has done for us—how He saved us and made us His own. If God did great things for us and made us His children, then He also calls us to live like it. May we do just that: living in a way worthy of being His and serving Him In all we do in all things. Amen.

Read all of Ephesians 4.

Cloak of Light

Psalm 104:2-3 and Sunset Clouds over Palo Duro Canyon, Texas.Very red sunset clouds over Palo Duro Canyon, Texas. and Psalm 104:2-3 landscape photo and Bible Verse about a cloak of light

“Covering Yourself with light as with a cloak, stretching out heaven like a tent curtain. He lays the beams of His upper chambers in the waters; He makes the clouds His chariot; He walks upon the wings of the wind.” Psalm 104:2-3

Clothed with a Cloak of Light

In Psalm 104 we find a very poetic description of the God of creation. The writer uses the elegant beauty of a sunset (or sunrise) to describe the wonder of God.

The beauty we see in a sunset sky calls us to the beauty of our God clothed with a cloak of light. John Eldredge says it so wonderfully when he writes in the The Sacred Romance, “The beauty that so captures our hearts and is so fleeting draw us towards an eternal reality.”

There is no greater reality than God. 

Read about the God of nature in Psalm 104.

No Greater Love

John 15:13-14 and a Columbine Flower, Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado.Purple columbine flower in Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado and John 15:13-14 Bible verse on no greater love

“Greater love has no one than this, that one lay down his life for his friends. You are My friends if you do what I command you.” John 15:13-14.

No Greater Love

A beautiful flower to go with a beautiful scripture. When we follow Christ He calls us His friends. The thought of God calling us His friends is a deeply profound statement.

In an act greater than simple friendship, Christ showed His overflowing love for us when He died on the cross. There is no greater and purer love for us than God’s love.

Learn more about God’s love for you at http://www.everyperson.com/ 

Read all of John 15 in context.