Creation Spills Forth His Glory

"The heavens declare the glory of God, the skies proclaim the work of His hands. Day after day they pour forth speech; night after night they display knowledge. There is no speech or language where their voice is not heard. Their voice goes out into all the earth, their words to the end of the world." -Psalm 19:1-4.

"Your word, O Lord, is eternal; it stands firm in the heavens". -Psalm 119:89.

It's wonderful how God can use anything to speak to us, if we’re only willing to listen. Watching the movie ‘Calendar Girls’ tonight, a speech was given on sunflowers as follows:

“I don’t think there’s anything on this planet that trumpets life more than the sunflower. For me, that’s because of the reason behind its name. Not because it looks like the sun but because it follows the sun. During the course of the day, the head tracks the journey of the sun across the sky; a satellite dish for sunshine. Wherever light is, no matter how weak, these flowers will find it.”
Isn’t that an apt description of Jesus’ disciples? We should follow the Son, tracking His journey and following in His ways. Wherever Jesus is in a situation, how He chooses to say or teach something, we should be on the lookout for Him and listening for his voice. So rather than sunflowers, we are Son-followers – also known as Christians.

Each and every time I go out at night in particular, I am reminded of how big our God is, that all the stars in the sky, everything under and above them was created by Him... I find it impossible to not worship a God who is capable of such beauty and wonder.

"Praise the LORD from the earth,

you great sea creatures and all ocean depths,

lightning and hail, snow and clouds,

stormy winds that do His bidding

you mountains and all hills,

fruit trees and all cedars,

wild animals and all catle,

small creatures and flying birds,

kings of the earth and all nations,

you princes and rulers on earth,

young men and maidens,

old men and children.

Let them praise the name of the LORD,

for His name alone is exalted;

His splendour is above the earth and the heavens.

-Psalm 148:7-13

All about God

A whirlpool. An accurate way to describe my mind right now. There are so many different thoughts swirling around up there in different shapes, sizes, colours but they're slowly melding and being pulled towards the centre to one main theme: God.
IT'S ALL ABOUT GOD.

Consider the controversial topic of conversion. Discussing 'Pascal's gambit', someone suggested it would be ideal to mention this to my non-Christian parents. However that's purely logic and conversion is a decision. Salvation, on the other hand is receiving from God, a gift that only Jesus can give us. Therefore to be saved is to respond to God, not a one-sided decision.

Response. That my entire life would be a response to God. Colossions 1:16 reads "For by him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things were created by him and for him. " Genesis 1:27: "So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them". 1 John 4:19: "We love because He first loved us". God took the first step and because of that, everything we do should be a response to Him. We love because He first loved us. Everything we do should be praising and glorifying God, after all we were created for Him!

Even when we do things as a response, it is still not all from us. Colossians 1:4-5 "because we have heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love you have for all the saints- the faith and love that spring from the hope that is stored up for you in heaven and that you have already heard about in the word of truth, the gospel...". The love and faith we have springs from our hope in heaven. How is that we can hope in heaven? Because of Christ's death on the cross for us (and how can one fail to react to that amazing act!?) and the fact that we know He is in heaven, we will one day meet Him there and that He is our hope - it is for these reasons that we have hope and faith and can offer love and hope. It is not our hope we share, but a hope born in Christ. Again, it's all about God. And how do we share that love, hope and faith? "I can do everything through Him who gives me strength". Only with God.

Blessed are they who keep His statutes and seek Him with all their heart. Father God, I seek You with all my heart; do not let me stray from your commands. As the Son can do nothing by himself; He can only do what He sees His Father doing, let me only do what I see You do, Father God and only through Your strength within me. Amen.