Who else has held the oceans in his hand?
Who has measured off the heavens with his fingers?
Who else knows the weight the earth
or has weighed the mountains and hills on a scale?
Who else has held the oceans in his hand?
Who has measured off the heavens with his fingers?
Who else knows the weight the earth
or has weighed the mountains and hills on a scale?
But you, O LORD, are a shield around me;
you are my glory, the one who holds my head high.
I cried out to the LORD,
and he answered me from his holy mountain.
I lay down and slept,
yet I woke up in safety,
for the LORD was watching over me.
Now all glory to God,
who is able,
through his mighty power at work within us,
to accomplish infinitely more than we might ask or think.
…Christ will make his home in your hearts as you trust in him.
Your roots will grow down into God’s love
and keep you strong.
And may you have the power to understand,
as all God’s people should,
how wide,
how long,
how high,
and how deep his love is.
…I fall to my knees and pray to the Father,
the Creator of everything in heaven and on earth.
I pray that from his glorious, unlimited resources
he will empower you with inner strength through his Spirit.
Because of Christ and our faith in him,
we can now come boldly and confidently
into God’s presence.
…You lived in this world without God and without hope.
But now you have been united with Christ Jesus.
Once you were far away from God,
but now you have been brought near to him
through the blood of Christ.
For we are God’s masterpiece.
He has created us anew in Christ Jesus,
so that we can do the good things he planned for us long ago.
God saved you by his grace when you believed.
And you can’t take credit for this;
it is a gift from God.
Salvation is not a reward for the good things we have done,
so none of us can boast about it.
When everything was ready,
the LORD said to Noah,
“Go into the boat with all your family,
for among all the people of the earth,
I can see that you alone are righteous