One morning earlier this month, I found myself sitting in a junior high science class, sitting in the last row during a discussion of the three classes of simple machines. Amidst this discussion of force, fulcrums, and resistance, my mind admittedly began to wander. Gratefully, my mind wandered to a higher place, and not the expected base fare of a distracted pupil. My mind wandered above the subject matter at hand, to the God who at one point decided that a force could be applied to affect resistance around a fulcrum. Who ordained every physical law, whose Creation has been the subject matter of every field of study since the beginning of time. I sat and realized that we were studying the handiwork of God, the God that I came into this country to proclaim. There is no classroom in which He is not already present. Our God created the systems physicists decontrust, the emotions that novelists document, the tones that musicians manipulate, and the minds, hearts, and ears upon which they act. Furthermore, all these things are called back to God for His glory. “For from him, and through him, and to him are all things. To him be the glory forever! Amen.”
I want God to so consume my thoughts so that I can rightfully see Him in all things, and abolish every compartment to which I have limited Him. I want to see all things as from God, and I want to know they all come through God, and I want to give all things back to God. God is revealing Himself to His people, and that doesn’t have to look like the verbal gospel proclamation from a pulpit on a Sunday morning within a well-furnished church building. All creation stands as a testimony, and to ignore that is to scorn the Creator.
“For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities – his eternal power and divine nature – have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse.”
I want a big enough view of God that I can leave a church service and a junior high science class knowing Him better. The wisdom of this world studies His creation without acknowledging Him as Creator and returning to Him the glory, preferring instead to rob that glory for ourselves. I pray that is not the wisdom to which I aspire.
