Category: creation

  • Creation is a Signpost: Why You Can’t Say You Didn’t Know

    Heavenly signposts,creation is a signpost

    Our all-powerful, all-knowing, ever-faithful, loving God has made it impossible for people not to know about Him. His creation is a living signpost that says God is here and He cares.

    Step outside almost any morning and creation is already preaching. A bird calls. Leaves move. The seasons turn on schedule, not because they must, but because the One who set them in motion has not stopped paying attention. Creation points us to God.

    Luke 12:24 makes the logic plain. If God feeds the ravens, birds that neither plant nor harvest, what does that say about how He thinks of us? We were made for eternal fellowship with Him. The ravens were not.

    The problem is that most of us are not looking. We move through days full of evidence and miss the sermon entirely. Creation does not require our understanding. It only asks for our attention. And when we give it, the message is the same every time: God is near, and nothing in His creation falls outside His care.

    The word makes it clear that creation is a signpost telling us God is and that we should seek Him.

    The heavens are telling of the glory of God;
    And the expanse is declaring the work of His hands.
    Day to day pours forth speech,
    And night to night reveals knowledge.

    Psalm 19:1-2


    “But now ask the beasts, and let them instruct you;
    And the birds of the sky, and let them tell you.
    Or muse to the earth, and let it instruct you;
    And let the fish of the sea recount it to you.
    Who among all these does not know
    That the hand of Yahweh has done this,
    In whose hand is the life of every living thing,
    And the breath of all the flesh of man?
     Job 12:7-10

    We can’t escape the signposts that God has given us. From the tiniest particle yet to be discovered to the ever-expanding expanse of space, God is proclaimed. The smaller we look and the further we search, the less likely we are to believe God is who He claims to be. All of creation is a signpost.

    To not see the LORD is to willfully choose ignorance and rebellion over truth and redemption. Romans 1:18-31 is very clear on that point.

    Some Judgment Day, no one will be able to say to the LORD, “But I didn’t know!” 

    What will you do with that knowledge?

    Hallelu Yah (Praise God) 

    Be blessed 

    Kevin 


    SUMMARY

    Creation is a constant, unmissable signpost pointing to God’s existence and His care for us, from the rhythm of seasons to the provision He gives the ravens. Scripture makes clear that no one will be able to claim ignorance on Judgment Day, because the evidence has been there all along for those willing to look.

    KEY POINTS

    General revelation through creation (Psalm 19:1-2, Job 12:7-10) makes God’s existence and care evident to everyone, without exception. 

    Luke 12:24’s ravens illustrate that if God provides for creatures with no eternal purpose, His care for humanity (made for fellowship with Him) is even greater. 

    Romans 1:18-31 establishes that willful blindness to this evidence is not innocence but rebellion, leaving no excuse on Judgment Day.

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  • Determined – thoughts on the state of the world

    Jasper sitting at the base of a tree he chewed

    This is Jasper, a border collie-maremma cross. His temperament is by far more maremma than collie. he is very determined. He lived with us when we had the acreage, but when we moved to the city, he and Misty, the border collie, moved to a friend’s farm, where they live happily today.

    Border collies are hyperactive herding dogs that seem to have to work to live. Maremmas are livestock guard dogs that are content to lie on a raised area, surveying their kingdom and flock with regal authority until danger arises. Then watch out.

    Jasper is a master at regally surveying his domain until danger arises. Unless there’s a squirrel. A squirrel throws a switch in his brain, and he just must get them. Then he thinks he’s a hunting dog crossed with a beaver. 

    You can see from the picture that he has a squirrel treed and is determined to bring it down. Yes, he gets so excited that he gnaws the tree. 

    That’s determination…or madness.

    There’s a lot of that sort of determination come madness in the world. The world is determined to dethrone God and do whatever it wants. That’s bad enough, but they want everyone else to celebrate the insanity.

    What is evil is now considered normal, even virtuous, by many.

    The Bible has some thoughts on that subject. The prophet Isiah was inspired by God to write on the subject 2800 years ago.

    Woe to those who draw iniquity with cords of falsehood, who draw sin as with cart ropes, who say: “Let him be quick, let him speed his work  that we may see it; let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw near, and let it come, that we may know it!” Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes, and shrewd in their own sight! Woe to those who are heroes at drinking wine, and valiant men in mixing strong drink, who acquit the guilty for a bribe, and deprive the innocent of his right!  Isaiah 5:18-23

    Paul opened his epistle to the church in Rome by talking on the subject (it’s worth taking a moment to read Romans 1 in full).

    For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened. Claiming to be wise, they became fools and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and creeping things. Romans 1:20-23

    Such people are under the wrath of God. Still, there is hope they will see the light and turn back before it’s too late.

    Our job isn’t to hate or judge these people; it’s to love them. Loving them doesn’t mean that we accept or follow their view, but it does mean that we pray for them, meet their needs when we can, and treat them as our neighbours.

     We, too, were lost in our sin and enemies of God at one point, and in His mercy, He reached down and saved us. Let’s pray He does the same even for those we might consider our enemies.

    Be blessed

    Kevin

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