Studying What's Awesome

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STUDYING WHAT’S AWESOME

What do geneticists, ornithologists, astronomers, physicists, zoologists, oceanographers, meteorologists, lepidopterists, and microbiologists all have in common? What do microbes have in common with minerals? Or flitting butterflies with distant stars? Or tiny hummingbirds with tiny atoms? Or deep ocean floors with marsupial koalas? What’s the connection?

God, the works of God and the study thereof.

What does Calvary and the cosmos have in common? Or do you see any link between the cross and creation? What do sinners redeemed by precious blood have in common with the solar system or the ecosystem? God and the works of God.

Great are the works of the LORD,

studied by all who delight in them.

(Psalm 111:2)

Who the deep, reflective thinker was we don’t know. Yes, he was a poet but we won’t talk about the intriguing structure of the Psalm in the original Hebrew language. You can study that yourself. But the poet was obviously meditatively delighting over his great God. His works are great because He is great.  A great God wouldn’t do un-great things.

It is no small wonder that many scientists who have delighted in studying the great works of the universe have concluded that a mighty and awesome God had to be and still has to be behind it all. Even sailors from a ship’s deck have peered into the night sky and concluded: “God is for real.”  Not a few atheists, agnostics and sceptics have repented as they studied the facts and have acknowledged God and have embraced Christ as their Saviour. Stories of such conversions are many.

Of all the amazing and delightful works of God, there is one that surpasses all others in absolute beauty and wonder. If the work of Creation is breath-taking, the work of Redemption is heart-bowing. The more we study and ponder it – the more delight we find in it. The story of God’s love for sinners expressed fully at the Cross is one of staggering proportions that will never be figured out or fathomed throughout the eternal ages. Redemption and salvation.

Isn’t there a verse that goes something like this: “For God so greatly loved and dearly prized the world that He (even) gave up His only begotten (unique) Son, so that whoever believes in (trusts in, clings to, relies on) Him shall not perish (come to destruction, be lost) but have eternal (everlasting) life.” John 3:16 Amplified

Swamped with studies? Don’t neglect the study of the great works of the Lord and the heart-warming study of Christ and the greatest of all works accomplished at the Cross. Find your delight in the great works of God.

Walk carefully and closely with the Lord today,

Peter Ramsay

peter@heaven4sure.com