The Upper Room 1 April 2022 Daily Devotional || Friday Message
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Beloved Children
Carrie Knight Kitzmiller (Texas, USA)
TODAY’S READING
Psalm 8:1-9
KEY VERSE: [The Lord] determines the number of the stars and calls them each by name. – Psalm 147:4 (NIV)
The Upper Room 1 April 2022 Daily Devotional MESSAGE
While looking through a book on astronomy, I came across a photo of a cluster of galaxies taken through a telescope. A cluster of galaxies! The realization of that magnitude was so profound for me that I actually felt a headache.
The Milky Way galaxy resides among approximately one hundred thousand other galaxies in a supercluster named Laniakea. And Earth is located an estimated twenty-six thousand light-years from the center of the Milky Way. No words are sufficient to express the incredible size of the universe. How inexpressibly marvelous and enormous, then, is our God!
The psalmist’s declaration that God determines the number of stars and gives them each a name could make some of us feel insignificant and small. Yet, in that complicated immensity, God chose to create us. God knows our names and abides in our hearts. Through our tears, laughter, and experiences, God reaches out to us and names us Beloved Children. Praise be to God!
TODAY’S PRAYER
All-powerful and loving God, thank you for caring for each part of your creation and for calling us your children. Amen.
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY
Even though I am just a small part of the universe, God cares deeply for me.
PRAYER FOCUS
Astronomers
The Upper Room 1 April 2022 Daily Devotional Message. The Upper Room is a daily devotional magazine published in more than 30 languages and 100 countries around the world. The daily meditations are written by readers of the magazine and others interested in sharing their faith experiences through writing—both laity and clergy, published authors and new writers. The meditations are stories of real people working to live faithfully with the Bible as their touchstone. Every day, readers of The Upper Room around the world read the same story in many different languages and pray the same prayer together. Read More