Continuing The God Show. You can find out more and get caught up HERE or at the link on the right under “other writings.”
The God Show is five channels (in addition to the Bible) that don't change over time or according to culture, where God's ways, invisible attributes, eternal power and divine nature are clearly perceived but often missed: 1. Nature, 2. Authority, 3. Family, 4. Marriage, 5. You. Really, he's all over the place. This is the beginning of the nature channel.
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What do the heavens declare about the glory of God? What speech are they pouring out? What of His invisible attributes are clearly perceived in what He has made? How is the whole earth filled with His glory?
John Piper says the universe “…is about the greatness of God, not the significance of man. God made man small and the universe big to say something about himself. And he says it for us to learn and enjoy -- namely, that he is infinitely great and powerful and wise and beautiful. The more the Hubble Telescope sends back to us about the unfathomable depths of space, the more we should stand in awe of God. The disproportion between us and the universe is a parable about the disproportion between us and God. And it is an understatement. But the point is not to nullify us but to glorify him.” -- Don’t Waste Your Life, p34
Infinitely great, powerful, wise, beautiful, unfathomable, awesome, disproportionate, glorious. He’s all right, all good, all the time – righteous. There’s nothing else and no one else like him. You look at nature and the universe and you know if He made that, then you are less than a speck of dandruff on a hair on the leg of a flea in comparison. You might not think of the word “holy” when you think of nature and creation, but that’s what it is.
The whole earth is filled with His holiness
But that does not mean everything in the world is holy – the room I’m in is filled with furniture but everything in the room is not furniture.
there cannot be two unlimited substances in the universe…there cannot be two absolutely free beings in the universe, for sooner or later, two completely free wills must collide. These attributes, to mention no more, require that there be but one to whom they belong -- A.W. Tozer, Knowledge of the Holy, p15-16
A long time ago Job smashed into God's holiness. And it was good. But not at first...
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