Welcome to today's devotion from Our Daily Bread. I'm Daniel Ryan Day, and I want to share with you

how God met me through his creation in an experience I titled God's Power on Display.

It was a lightning storm, and my six-year-old daughter and I were on the floor, watching the

dazzling display through the glass door. She kept repeating, wow, God is so big. I felt the same way.

It was obvious to both of us how small we were and how powerful God must be.

Lines from the book of Job flashed through my mind,

what is the way to the place where the lightning is dispersed, or the place where the east winds are scattered over the earth? Job needed to be reminded of God's power. His life had fallen apart.

His children were dead. He was broke. He was sick. His friends offered no

empathy. His wife encouraged him to abandon his faith. Eventually, Job asked God, why? And God responded

out of a storm. In Chapter 42, God reminded Job of his control over the physical attributes of the

world. This comforted him, and he responded, my ears had heard of you, but now my eyes have seen you.

In other words, now I get it, God. I see that you don't fit into my box. When life falls apart, sometimes the most comforting

thing we can do is to lie on the floor and watch the lightning, to be reminded that the God

who created the world is big enough and loving enough to take care of us too. We may even start

singing our favorite worship songs that tell of the might and greatness

of our God.

I'd like to share with you the passage of Scripture from where that verse that I just mentioned came from.

This is Job chapter 38, verses 24 through 38.

What is the way to the place where the lightning is dispersed, or the place where the east winds are

scattered over the earth? Who cuts a channel for the torrents of rain and a path for the thunderstorm?

To water a land where no one lives in uninhabited desert. To satisfy a desolate wasteland and make it

sprout with grass. Does the rain have a father? Who fathers the drops of dew? From whose womb comes the ice? Who gives birth to the

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