Welcome to today's encouragement from Our Daily Bread.

My name's Kirsten Holmberg and I titled our reading, Discovering Creation.

Krubera Veronia, in the Eurasian country of Georgia, is one of the deepest caves yet explored on planet Earth.

A team of explorers have probed the dark and scary depths of its mostly vertical caverns to 2,197 meters.

That's 7,208 feet into the earth.

Similar caves, around 400 of them, exist in other parts of the country and across the globe.

More caverns are being discovered all the time and new depth records are being set.

The mysteries of creation continue to unfold, changing and adding to our

understanding of the universe we live in, and causing us to wonder at the matchless creativity

of God's handiwork. The psalmist invites us all to sing for joy and shout aloud to the Lord

because of his greatness.

God's work of creation, all that it contains, whether we've yet discovered it or not,

is cause for us to bow down in worship. He doesn't just know the vast physical spaces of his creation. He also knows the intimate depths of our hearts.

And not unlike the caverns of Georgia, we'll go through dark and perhaps scary seasons in life.

Yet we know that God holds even those times in his powerful yet tender care.

In the words of the psalmist, we're his people, the flock under his care.

Today's Our Daily Bread Devotional Scripture reading is from Psalm 95, verse 1 through 7.

Come, let us sing for joy to the Lord. Let us shout aloud to the rock of our salvation.

Let us come before him with Thanksgiving and extol him with music and song.

For the Lord is the great God, the great king above all gods.

In his hand are the depths of the earth and the mountain peaks belong to him.

The sea is his, for he made it, and his hands formed the dry land.

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