CREATION;
WONDER

God made the world; it is a beautiful thing and something to venerate. It’s a great loss—a tragic loss—that we’ve suffered in the last generation. We have lost the ability to wonder. We know so everlasting much and we’re so sure of ourselves. But David stood and wondered in the presence of God’s creation; he raised his eyes and said, “What is man that you are mindful of him?” (Psalm 8:4a). And Isaiah and Jeremiah and Ezekiel and all the rest of them stood and wondered in the presence of God Almighty’s creation.…

Everything is a bright miracle. It’s not only a miracle when Christ turns water into wine; it’s also a miracle when the sun rises with its healing rays and drives off the fog and brings out the bud and brings the frog out to croak in the grass and the fish to swim and the bird to whistle and sing in the air. All God’s handiwork is a wonderful miracle. If we only knew it, we would find that we are living in a world that is not a broken-off, lost dark no-man’s land. It is the back door of heaven, and if we listen we can hear the angels sing.

The footprints of God are everywhere about us. And while we can’t see Him, we can see His luminous trail like a bird that sings while hidden in a tree. As Middle-ton said, “The bird sings darkling.” We can’t see the bird, but we can hear her sing. God sings among His branches and sings in His universe. You and I cannot gaze upon Him, for no man can see God and live. But we can hear Him sing His song of creation and redemption. And we can feel the pressure of His breath upon us as we move through the world. We’ll never see things rightly till we see them as the garments of God.

Psalm 8:3–5; Psalm 19:1–6; Psalm 104; Jeremiah 9:23–24

Success and the Christian, 104, 105.