“Praise Him, skies above! Praise Him, vapors high above the clouds! Let every created thing give praise to the Lord, for He issued His command, and they came into being. He set them in place forever and ever. His decree will never be revoked.” (Psalm 148:4-6 NLT)
As a new believer it wasn’t unusual to hear comments related to how old and unreliable the Bible was, especially as it related to science, and I didn’t know any better. It was intimidating, largely because I didn’t have any rebuttal. Johannes Kepler, the famous mathematician and astronomer, once said, “Science is simply thinking God’s thoughts after him.”
Rick Warren in one of his Daily Hope devotionals wrote: “The Bible wasn’t meant to be a scientific textbook. You don’t study the Bible to build a rocket. And the Bible doesn’t use scientific language. But the Bible never gives bad science! In fact, it’s always ahead of science.
For example:
- For thousands of years, people believed that the Earth was flat. But God said 2,600 years ago in Isaiah 40:22 that God is enthroned above the sphere of the Earth.
- For thousands of years, people believed something held the Earth up. Hindus believed huge elephants did it. The Greeks believed Atlas did it. The Egyptians believed five columns held the Earth up. But the Bible never says that anything is holding the planet up.
- For thousands of years, people believed that the number of stars was finite. But Jeremiah 33:22 says the number of stars can’t be counted.
The laws of science don’t work one day and then stop working the next. Each and every one of them always works—because they are true and made by God. And truth doesn’t change.
Over the years I’ve learned that many things I believe may not be able to be proved scientifically, but that doesn’t make them any less true. There’s not a formula for forgiveness, peace of mind, or freedom from sin, but when I met Jesus, He gave me those things as a gift of grace.
Does it seem strange to you that human beings are the only one of God’s creation that doesn’t instinctively obey the Lord. Years ago, I read an account of a man who was locked up and left to die, but he survived because the Lord instructed a rat to take the man sweet potatoes every day. Like me, you may think that’s not ideal, but if I’m starving it would be a welcomed provision.
We’re so spoiled, especially as Americans, and ungrateful. Every dimension of God’s creation worships the Lord and gives Him praise, adoration, and credit due His holy Name simply for who He is. But not us. Human beings, for all our positive characteristics, must be convinced of nearly everything we do or experience. And what’s the measure we use? Usually our feelings, the most unreliable of all our faculties.
Will you join me in celebrating the creativity, glory, and majesty of our heavenly Father? Without God there wouldn’t be any science, or anything else for that matter. Scientific “research” essentially is the process of discovering what God has known all along. We will spend eternity discovering things about Him and His creation that will continue to boggle our minds and fill our hearts with joy and adoration.
Food for thought.
Blessings, Ed 😊
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