Jeremiah 10:12-15
“But it is God whose power made the earth, whose wisdom gave shape to the world, who crafted the cosmos. He thunders, and rain pours down. He sends the clouds soaring. He embellishes the storm with lightnings, launches wind from his warehouse. Stick-god worshipers looking mighty foolish, god-makers embarrassed by their handmade gods! Their gods are frauds—dead sticks, deadwood gods, tasteless jokes. When the fires of judgment come, they’ll be ashes.”
“But God made the earth by his power, and he preserves it by his wisdom. With his own understanding he stretched out the heavens. When he speaks in the thunder, the heavens roar with rain. He causes the clouds to rise over the earth. He sends the lightning with the rain and releases the wind from his storehouses. The whole human race is foolish and has no knowledge! The craftsmen are disgraced by the idols they make, for their carefully shaped works are a fraud. These idols have no breath or power. Idols are worthless; they are ridiculous lies! On the day of reckoning they will all be destroyed.”
The creation shouts God’s glory. For the past 150 years science has been trying to tell us the creation is self-existent, needing no creator. The past decade has discovered so many fine-tuned requirements for the existence of the Universe a creator is the only reasonable option. So, we are back at the beginning again, turning to Jeremiah and other biblical writers, free to marvel at God’s power and creativity so powerfully represented by the natural world. The universe was created by something outside of itself and therefore that agent must be outside our imaginations as well. Our sticks and stones look pretty silly next to the Almighty.
Lord, you are mighty. There is no one like you. Thank you for the clues of yourself you hide in the natural world. It shouts your glory. Give us wisdom to appreciate and use it with good stewardship. May we tend it well, by your grace and for you glory.