{"id":9628,"date":"2016-08-17T00:49:04","date_gmt":"2016-08-17T05:49:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/creationwonder\/"},"modified":"2016-08-17T00:49:04","modified_gmt":"2016-08-17T05:49:04","slug":"creationwonder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/creationwonder\/","title":{"rendered":"CREATION;\nWONDER"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>God made the world; it is a beautiful thing and something to venerate. It\u2019s a great loss\u2014a tragic loss\u2014that we\u2019ve suffered in the last generation. We have lost the ability to wonder. We know so everlasting much and we\u2019re so sure of ourselves. But David stood and wondered in the presence of God\u2019s creation; he raised his eyes and said, \u201cWhat is man that you are mindful of him?\u201d (Psalm 8:4a). And Isaiah and Jeremiah and Ezekiel and all the rest of them stood and wondered in the presence of God Almighty\u2019s creation.\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>Everything is a bright miracle. It\u2019s not only a miracle when Christ turns water into wine; it\u2019s 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\u2019s 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\u2019s land. It is the back door of heaven, and if we listen we can hear the angels sing.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>The footprints of God are everywhere about us. And while we can\u2019t see Him, we can see His luminous trail like a bird that sings while hidden in a tree. As Middle-ton said, \u201cThe bird sings darkling.\u201d We can\u2019t 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\u2019ll never see things rightly till we see them as the garments of God.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>Psalm 8:3\u20135; Psalm 19:1\u20136; Psalm 104; Jeremiah 9:23\u201324<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'><i>Success and the Christian,<\/i> 104, 105.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>God made the world; it is a beautiful thing and something to venerate. It\u2019s a great loss\u2014a tragic loss\u2014that we\u2019ve suffered in the last generation. We have lost the ability to wonder. We know so everlasting much and we\u2019re so sure of ourselves. But David stood and wondered in the presence of God\u2019s creation; he &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/creationwonder\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;CREATION;<br \/>\nWONDER&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9628\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}