Hearing the Creation Speak

Isaac Newton declared, “Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.” He also shared, “This most beautiful system of the sun, planets and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being.” One of the most influential scientists of all time, who developed the principles of modern physics and is most famous for his law of gravitation, understood what many of us have tried to deny: a created universe demands the existence of a Creator.

 

Isn’t this what the Bible has told us all along? Psalm 19:1-4a says:

 

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 reveal knowledge.
They have no speech, they use no words;
              no sound is heard from them.
4a Yet their voice goes out into all the earth,
            their words to the ends of the world.

 

As we wrap up summer, a season when many of us spend a good deal of time outside, enjoying the created world in which we live, let us remember that the beauty of nature comes from the Beautiful One who designed it for us to enjoy. Let us thank God for the peaceful experience of walking through the woods, the simple joy of swimming in the lake, and the relaxation of walking on the beach. And let our amazement at the creation point us to the One who created it.
 
Troy Burns