“Lift up your eyes on high, and see who has created these things.” Isaiah 40:26 NKJV
“The Bible is clear, not ambiguous nor apologetic as to its claim.”
My thoughts today are about “a sense of wonder.”
You live in a pretty amazing world, far too amazing to be an accident that happened without reason or origin. People can argue all they want about origins, but believing that this astounding masterpiece of creation came about without a Creator requires far more trust in fallible man’s explanations than I am able to muster.
The Bible is clear, unambiguous and unapologetic as to its claim. “The heavens are Yours, and the earth is Yours; everything in all the world is Yours – You created it all . . the Lord merely spoke and the heavens were created. He breathed the word, and all the stars were born. He gave the sea its boundaries and locked the oceans in vast reservoirs . . let everyone stand in awe of Him. For when he spoke, the world began! It appeared at His command.” Psalm 89:11/33:6-9 NLT. Is that hard to understand or explain? Of course, it is, but not more difficult to believe than that all of this that you see and at which you marvel, came from some cosmic explosion and a gradual, though unexplainable evolving of species.
Which is more foolish? To accept the existence and unequaled power of God to create this world of majestic beauty, order and wonder? “By faith we understand that the universe was formed at God’s command, so that what is seen was not made out of what was visible.” Hebrews 11:3 NIV. Or to believe that all the wonder of creation is possible without a Creator; to assume this unparalleled design and order was without any forethought or plan? Either takes faith to believe, and it would appear to me that the latter demands blind faith.
Don’t be intimidated by those whose apparently certain explanations seem so rational and academic; their rationality also leaves no place for God anywhere in life. He is not only dismissed from creation, but also relegated as irrelevant, if at all existing. Consider this: if the Bible is in error as to its claim of creation, how can you believe any of its claims about eternity? If there is no Creator, then there is no Savior, and man is alone in an amazing universe without God. If you choose creation without its creator, you are left with one but not the other. I choose the Creator and His creation; therefore, I have the One with the other.
The Psalmist reasoned, “When I consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, the moon and the stars which You have set in place; what is man that You are mindful of him . . that You care for Him?” Psalm 8:3-4 NIV. “The world is not lacking in wonders, but in a sense of wonder.” (G. K. Chesterton, 1874-1936, prolific English writer and orthodox Christian.) Don’t lose your sense of wonder.
Look around you; there is beauty and majesty to be considered and its Creator to be enjoyed. Stand on a clear and expansive, star-filled night with nothing but the sights and sounds of nature surrounding you. In all you see, do not miss knowing the One from whose hand it has all been given. “Lift up your eyes on high, and see who has created these things.” See Isaiah 40:26 NKJV.
My prayer for you today is that you are not blinded by what you cannot explain.