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Song: Hallelujah! Praise Jehovah!
Scripture: Psalm 148
Modern, secular science has done much to remove nature’s personality. Human behavior has been explained as so many chemical reactions and electrical impulses. And if human life is robbed of purpose then how much more inexplicable are the meanderings of beast and bird, of fish and flower.
Ancient science grasped what modern science misses. It gazed at nature’s wonder and wondered at nature’s order. But it understood that nature’s ordered wonders imply a Wonderful Orderer. “For He commanded and they were created.”
The psalmist lacked the benefits of modern science. But knowledge had not led him to the proud boast of our generation that he understood it all. He saw the Person behind nature’s power and the Personality within it. He observed the purpose to nature’s wonder—to teach creation closest to God to behave like creation farthest away.
The sun is not just a spinning orb of fiery gases. He’s a witness to the Almighty who lit his torch from nothing. He follows the path God first drew for him without fail. Hail, snow, cloud, and storm are not just varied forms of H2O. They’re messengers of God’s providence and judgment fulfilling His word. Weathermen may not predict their patterns. But they never disobey God’s marching orders. It is this grand procession of creation by God’s direction that gives Him praise. Let us them praises give Jehovah!
Jason Moore
