THE UPPER ROOM DEVOTIONAL 29TH JUNE 2025, SUNDAY MESSAGE
Read The Upper Room Devotional 29 June 2025 written by Valerie Bryant Bennett (Tennessee, USA)
TOPIC: Outer Fringes
Today’s Reading
Job 26:7-14
These are but the outer fringe of [God’s] works; how faint the whisper we hear of him! – Job 26:14 (NIV)
Recently I was amazed at a photo of the Pillars of Creation, a star-forming region in deep space, taken by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. It captures a breathtaking image of archlike columns of dust and gas where newly formed stars are taking shape.
Job spoke about the many unimaginable and incredible works of God.
He proclaimed God’s power in suspending the earth over nothing, in churning up the seas, in wrapping up the waters in the clouds, and in turning the skies fair by a simple breath. Then Job followed this with an amazing declaration: “These are but the fringes of his ways; how faint a whisper we hear of him!” What a thought! My mind can’t fathom that the wonders of nature are just the outer fringes of God’s works.
If the colors of autumn, the beauty of a first snow, and the Pillars of Creation are but a faint whisper of who God is, we are indeed loved and held securely by an incomprehensible God.
Today’s Prayer
Creator God, the concerns of this life limit our perception of who you are. Help us begin to grasp your glory that is beyond our imagining. Amen.
Thought for the Day
Every day I will listen for the whispers of God.
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