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Lesson: Job 38-39 (Selected)

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1. It's a Big Wide Wonderful World We Live In

1. Have you seen a globe of our world.

3. Rotates approximately once in 24 hours.

1. The rotation creates days and nights and seasons

2. Spring, Summer, Fall and Winter

2. We are 93 million miles away from the sun.

   2. The earth circles sun once in a year

   3. The sun provides heat and light

3. The Earth is not as big as some of the planets in our system.

1. In pictures taken by astronauts, it looks rather small.

2. Yet it is a big, wide, wonderful world.

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4. Travel around it and find out for yourself.

1. Plains of mid-west

1. Flat land

1. Nebraska

2. Saskatchewan

2. Miles and miles of corn, beans, wheat, or rape seed.

2. Shores of oceans

1. The pounding surf that crashes on the rock bound coast of Maine.

2. The surf that rolls in on the sandy beeches of California.

3. You can smell the water and dream of far off places.

3. Mountains

1. Stand at the top of the Rockies or the Alps.

2. You are in awe of the height and the beauty that can be seen.

3. John Denver, "Rocky Mountain High."

Rocky Mountain High (Denver/Taylor)

He was born in the summer of his 27th year, coming home to a place he'd never been before.
He left yesterday behind him, you might say he was born again,
you might say he found a key for every door.

When he first came to the mountains, his life was far away on the road and hanging by a song.
But the strings already broken and he doesn't really care,
it keeps changing fast, and it don't last for long.

And the Colorado Rocky Mountain high, I've seen it raining fire in the sky.
The shadows from the starlight are softer than a lullaby.
Rocky Mountain high, Colorado. Rocky Mountain high.

He climbed cathedral mountains, he saw silver clouds below,
he saw everything as far as you can see.
And they say that he got crazy once and he tried to touch the sun,
and he lost a friend, but kept the memory.

Now he walks in quiet solitude, the forest and the streams, seeking grace in every step he takes.
His sight is turned inside himself, to try and understand
the serenity of a clear blue mountain lake.

And the Colorado Rocky Mountain high, I've seen it raining fire in the sky.
You can talk to God and listen to the casual reply.
Rocky Mountain high, Colorado. Rocky Mountain high.

Now his life is full of wonder, but his heart still knows some fear,
of a simple thing he can not comprehend.
Why they try to tear the mountains down to bring in a couple more,
more people, more scars upon the land.

And the Colorado Rocky Mountain high, I've seen it raining fire in the sky.
I know he'd be a poor man if he never saw an eagle fly,
Rocky Mountain high, the Colorado Rocky Mountain high, I've seen it raining fire in the sky.
Friends around the campfire and everybody's high
Rocky Mountain high, Colorado. Rocky Mountain high.
Rocky Mountain high, Colorado. Rocky Mountain high.

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4. Desert badlands

1. Flying over the Panhandle of Texas.

2. Speaking to my seat mate about a desire to experience what was below.

3. Oh you don't want to do that, it's nothing.

4. Well I did get to see it and it's something spectacular.

5. Look at nature and the variety of life other than human.

1. Look down and see the insects that are almost to small to be seen.

2. Look up and see the hawks, the eagles, and the turkey vultures.

3. Helga and I walked up from the campground to the picnic area at Blue Mound State park.

1. As we got to the top there was a young Robin that followed us.

2. It hopped right up to us as if it were looking for its parent, or something to eat.

4. Look up at the clouds.

1. I remember a Peanuts cartoon.

2. Charlie Brown and Linus are laying in the grass at the passing clouds.

When Charlie asks Linus if he can see any shapes in them, Linus replies that he's just spotted the outline of British Honduras, the profile of the painter Thomas Eakins, and a remarkably detailed tableau of the martyrdom of St Stephen: "There's the Apostle Paul standing to one side.

What about you, Charlie Brown?" "I was going to say I saw a ducky and a horsie, but I just changed my mind."

3. When you look at the clouds, what do you see?

6. Then look at the diversity of human life.

1. It is too marvelous to entirely comprehend.

2. It can be very diverse even in the same country.

6. This is our Father's world.

1. Job questions the creativity and purposes of God.

2. God answers by pointing out the world and its creation.

1. Where were you when I laid the foundation of the world.

2. Do you really have much, if any understanding or control, over it or its life?

3. We admit that we have more.

4. We also have our limitations.

7. So we stand in awe of our world and its ability to support life.

1. We do all that we can to maintain and improve it.

2. After all, we are the children of God.

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