View the post for March 2 for an explanation of my theme for Lent. I have seen you in the sanctuary and beheld your power and your glory. We arrived at Badlands National Park at the end of the tourist season. The summer and fall crowds were gone and most of the services in park would be closed or cut back to a bare minimum the next week. So when we made it to the usually crowded parking lot for the three most used trails and overlooks in the park there was no one there. No one even showed up the whole time we watched the sun rise and experienced the beauty of golden hour. Before I started seeing God’s world through my camera lens I didn’t make it a point to get up before dawn just so that I could see the sun rise. My photography developed that habit in me as it has developed many other habits that lead me to see beauty. Now I see things that I never would have seen before. This day that habit payed off. I took image after image surrounded by the magnificent beauty of the wilderness that I never expected to see.
David wrote Psalm 63 when he was in the wilderness of Judea. Although we don’t know for sure, many commentators think that he wrote this during the time when his son, Absalom, was trying to take the throne. David was running for his life from his own son. He was in the wilderness facing one of the most difficult times in his long life. It was his habit of worship that reminded him of the many times he had worshiped in the sanctuary. It was those memories that would sustain him in the wilderness where he found himself. As the habits developed through my photography have taught me to see beauty in unexpected places, so our habits of worship will sustain us in the wilderness time of our lives. Like David we will remember the times when we have seen God’s power and glory in our worship and know the wonder of his love for us, even in the wilderness. How has the habit of worship sustained you? Prayer Lord God We come, wherever we are, to worship you again. May our lives glorify you this day. Amen (You can see more images from that day in a video I made on the Songs 3 page of my site.)
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