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  • 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 

    You might also like: God loves ravens.


    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.

    General Revelation. The reason no one can say they didn’t know the truth

  • The power of the natural world points us to God

    Vedder River near Chilliwack - flooding with the powerful atmospheric river

    We have just come out of another atmospheric river, a powerful series of rainstorms. It has created powerful flood and near-flood conditions. It has washed out roads and caused mudslides and landslides. Just another typical spring in BC’s Lower Mainland and Fraser Valley. 

    It’s a powerful sight, and it’s often commented on. There is no doubt that it can be an awe inspiring sight to see, and it can also be incredibly destructive

    I frequently hear people commenting about the “Power of Nature.” There is power there, but the power isn’t caused by “nature.” Nature has no power to do or cause anything outside the constraints set by God. There are rules that the natural world must abide by.

    The power that created this “Nature” that many worship is none other than the God of the Bible, the Creator of Heaven and Earth. As its creator, he stands outside of time, space, and matter, but can intervene in any way that He sees fit, in any manner that does not violate His character. There is nothing and no one more powerful than Him.

    Our world is a broken place and will continue to fall apart until the Lord redeems it at the culmination of time. The new heavens and new earth will be better than this one, even better than Eden.

    Those who worship the created are blind.

    For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth. For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them. For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse. 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. Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves, because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen.  Romans 1:18-25

    There is much to be admired and awed by in the natural world, but it ought to send us in search of the creator.

    Open your eyes. What do you see? The fingerprints of God are on everything in the created universe.

    Give Him the glory due His name.

    Be blessed

    Kevin