Wednesday, April 13, 2011

Manifold Witness

O Lord, how manifold are your works!

In wisdom have you made them all,


the earth is full of your creatures.


Here is the sea, great and wide,


which teems with creatures innumerable,


living things both small and great.


Psalm 104


The heavens declare the glory of God, and the sky above proclaims his handiwork. Psalm 19


God's works are a manifold witness to His glory. They point us to an amazing Creator, and they reveal Him to us. We do well to study them in order to study the One who created them.


But you and I both know that creation is not His only manifestation of Himself to us. If it were, I doubt that we'd ever get it. Praise Him that He added to the revelation with His Word: The law of the Lord is perfect, reviving the soul; . . . more to be desired are [His words] than gold, even much fine gold.


But our God went further even than that. He sent the Word to us, so we could see the radiance of the glory of God and the exact imprint of his nature. This is a Creator, Father God who wants us to know Him! And He pulled out all the stops so that could happen.



And yet we continue to eat from trees that promise "good food", are "delightful to the eyes, and desirable to make us wise". God has shown us in any number of ways that He is all of the above and more. Oh Lord, give us a hunger for more of You. My puny little heart, three sizes too small, needs Your help to love You.


And I will give you a new heart, and a new spirit I will put within you. And I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. (Ezekiel 36:26)
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  1. AnonymousApril 13, 2011 at 4:56 PM

    Only Jesus will satisfy the hunger and thirst of our lives. This post, as well as Jim Ferguson Sr.'s sermon on Sunday make me think of this little section from C.S.Lewis's "The Silver Chair"--
    "The thirst became so bad that she almost felt she would not mind being eaten by the Lion if only she could be sure of getting a mouthful of water first.
    'I daren't come and drink,' said Jill.
    'Then you will die of thirst,' said the Lion.
    'I suppose I must go and look for another stream then.'
    'There is no other stream,' said the Lion. It was the worst thing she had ever had to do, but she went forward to the stream, knelt down, and began scooping up the water in her hand. It was the coolest, most refreshing water she had ever tasted."

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