Hello, I'm Sochiel Dixon.

I'm sharing a family moment in today's encouragement from our daily bread.

God made them all.

My three-year-old son, Xavier, squeezed my hand as we entered the Monterey Bay Aquarium in California.

Pointing to a life-sized sculpture of a humpback whale suspended from the ceiling, he said,

Enormous! His wide-eyed joy continued as we explored each exhibit.

We laughed as the otter splish splash during feeding time.

We stood in silence in front of a large glass aquarium window mesmerized by the golden brown

jellyfish dancing in the electric blue water.

God made every creature in the ocean, I said, just like he made you and me.

Xavier whispered, wow.

In Psalm 104, the psalmist acknowledged God's abounding creation and saying, in wisdom, you made them all.

The earth is full of your creatures. He declared, there is the sea, vast and spacious, teeming with

creatures beyond number, living things both large and small. He proclaimed God's generous

and satisfying provision for all he created.

He also affirmed that God has determined the days of each one's existence.

We can join the psalmist in singing this declaration of devotion.

I will sing to the Lord all my life. I will sing praise to my God as long as I live.

Every creature that exists from the big to the small can lead us to praise because God made them all.

Today's our daily bread devotional scripture reading is from Psalm 104,

verses 24 to 35.

How many are your works, Lord, in wisdom you made them all.

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