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God's Beautiful Creation Series
Contributed by Bobby Oliver on Jul 3, 2018 (message contributor)
Summary: God's creation declares His excellency, His creation has a purpose, and His creation is managed His way.
- Our universe is huge, bigger than anything we can imagine…yet David describes it as created by God’s fingers!
- That shows you just how awesome God is…
- When He created the world and the universe, it didn’t require a great amount of His energy or strength, and it didn’t wear Him out…
- No, He created it with His fingers…it’s one of His masterpieces!
- Sometimes, I like to watch painters work on their masterpieces.
- It’s amazing as you watch their hand at work, effortlessly creating beautiful scenery and bringing their painting to life…
- That’s how I picture God’s hand creating…
- Effortlessly forming the stars and the sun and the planets…
- Seeing exactly what His finished product would look like, and creating it, piece by piece…
- I like what David Guzik says about the heavens.
- “With the naked eye, one can see about 5,000 stars. With a four-inch telescope one can see about 2 million stars. With a 200-inch mirror of a great observatory, one can see more than a billion stars. The universe is so big that if one were to travel at the speed of light, it would take 40 billion years. Considering the heavens makes us see the greatness of God.”
- Yet, in vs 4, David says, “What is man that you are mindful of him?”
- When comparing our galaxy and universe to mankind, we look so small and weak and insignificant.
- And yet God, who created the universe, and also created us, has chosen to take notice of mankind.
- Of course, God is so much bigger and greater than our universe, so that makes the smallness of mankind seem even smaller!
- I like how John Trapp describes it…
- “Sorry, sickly man, a mass of mortalities, a map of miseries, a mixture or compound of dirt and sin… And yet God is mindful of him.”
- As I was thinking about this, I couldn’t help but think about how I live my life.
- Obviously, I’m a sinner saved by grace.
- Yet God, who created me, and created the universe, cares about me.
- That means if I’m sinning, He sees and knows, and of course takes notice of it.
- If I’m sinning, He sees the pain I’m causing to myself, or to my family, or to others around me.
- If I’m sinning, He can see the damage it’s causing, and the destruction being left in my path.
- He is mindful of me, so shouldn’t that affect the way I live?
- Especially as a sinner saved by grace, God deserves my obedience and my submission to Him.
- Then, we look at the world, and can see all the damage sin has caused.
- Those who reject God and refuse to submit to Him have brought wars, and famines, and disease to their lands…
- They’ve left broken families behind and brought pain and sadness to the people around them.
- Yet God is mindful of mankind, and that’s why Jesus came, to make us new.
- He is mindful of us, and we should be thankful for that!
- Notice David continues in vs 4 by saying, “And the son of man that You visit him?”
- Don’t miss that…
- It’s a repetition of the first part, of God being mindful of mankind, but it’s repeated in a stronger way…
- Son of man…that shows our humanness.
- Not only that, but he started by saying God is mindful of us, and now He says He has visited us!
