To God be the glory!

1:27 p.m. Today's project was to share thoughts on two wonderful videos that show the magnificence of our God throughout the earth!






Last night, I came across a fantastic surfing video posted by my friend Monica, of the Monica's Munchies blog. The son of a world famous surfer created a collection of surf documentaries that are stunningly beautiful. I see in these documentaries a wonderful "collaboration" between God's creation and man's skill and ingenuity. Truly, whenever we act in partnership with God, even unknowingly, we serve to glorify Him, our Creator! David asked in Psalm 8:3-8,



When I consider Your heavens,
The work of Your fingers,
The moon and the stars, which You have ordained,
What is man that You are mindful of him,
And the son of man that You visit him?
For You have made him a little lower than the angels,
And You have crowned him with glory and honor.
You have made him to have dominion over the works of Your hands;
You have put all things under his feet,
All sheep and oxen--
Even the beasts of the field,
The birds of the air,
And the fish of the sea
That pass through the paths of the sea.



That pretty well covers the earth, doesn't it? On a more lowly scale, for lunch just now, I painstakingly pressure -cooked, pulled apart, scraped and cut out the tasty parts of an artichoke, a homely vegetable that can't be beat for flavor when dipped in mayonnaise or melted butter. But the first person who ate one--like the first oyster eater--had to be pretty daring!! Another aspect of the God-man partnership in action: His provision of food.

I just added a new site to my blog's reading list, www.transplantfund.org, a national website to help raise funds for organ transplants. It came to my attention just today, from a gentleman who came over to measure our backyard for a cinderblock wall. His wife is in recovery from a liver transplant. Did God create the human liver? Of course. Do some fail? Sadly, yes. But has God redeemed this devastating experience by giving man the wisdom and ability to perform organ transplants? He has indeed!

The second video was emailed to me by God Tube, and shows a homeless man praising God with all his might, as Danny Doheney plays and sings, "God of Second Chances." You wonder how someone with very little (in our eyes) to be thankful for can burst out in righteous praise, but he does, with true joy. May we praise Him in our trials as this man does, knowing that all we could ever ask for, think of, or possess, comes from God!

I'll let the Psalmist supply my praise in v. 9: "O LORD, our Lord, how excellent is Your Name in all the earth!