June 2, 2009 - Job 36

After seeing the pictures that I had gotten that day, as well as a few other pictures I had gotten from other storms, I began to put together a series of pictures with verses on them that wrote out a portion of Job 36. It was such a neat bit of Scripture, and seemed to fit really well with the pictures I had gotten. All but two of the following verse pics (the second and last ones) are from June 2, 2009. Hopefully the text is readable. If not, just click on the image and see if it will enlarge. But just in case that doesn't work, I'll write out the passage as well.

Here's the passage:

Remember to extol His work,
of which men have sung.
All mankind has looked on it;
man beholds it from afar.
Behold, God is great, and we know Him not;
the number of His years is unsearchable.
For He draws up the drops of water;
they distill His mist in rain,
which the skies pour down
and drop on mankind abundantly.
Can anyone understand the spreading of the clouds,
the thunderings of His pavilion?
Behold, He scatters His lightning about Him
and covers the roots of the sea.
For by these He judges peoples;
he gives food in abundance.
He covers His hands with the lighting
and commands it to strike the mark.
Its crashing declares His presence;
the cattle also declare that He rises.
(Job 36:24-33, English Standard Version)

A neat passage. I had to think about that last verse, where it says, "the cattle also declare that He rises." I decided that it was just showing that it's more than just the crashing booms and flashing lights that declare the glory of God, but even the cattle. The focus of the passage wasn't meant to be the great big thunders and storms, but the God that they declare.

As a side note, in the second verse picture from the top (not one from June 2), all those little black specks are raindrops! You might not be able to see them very well, so you might just have to take my word for it, but they're there. It was neat when I looked at the picture to see all those millions of little raindrops falling from the clouds! Clouds really drop a lot of rain, don't they!

Well, that wraps up the posts on June 2, 2009. It was a really neat day that God blessed with several neat photographs. I enjoyed that day, and I've enjoyed remembering that day as well as I shared it on this blog. But now it's time to move on. . .