Of April showers & the flowers of May
April showers bring May flowers, and what do May flowers bring? Pilgrims. I suppose most of us have heard this little riddle since we were quite young. I find it amazing that the changing of the seasons is so predictable that even children’s riddles can be based upon them.
That raises the question: how did the universe become so regulated and predictable?
Some would suggest that it was by mere undirected uncaused chance. Billions of years and big explosions resulted in the complicated and predictable universe in which we live. In light of our complicated universe, is this really believable? Can you think of anything that becomes more well organized and complicated as the result of an explosion? All the explosions with which I have any knowledge was just the opposite.
We live in a marvelous universe and on an amazing planet. When we look up into the sky at night, we cannot begin to see the end of our solar system. Even with the mightiest of telescopes we still cannot probe the farthest regions of our universe.
If you started running the moment you were born and ran a mile every minute of every day, you would be 700 years old before you reached our sun and 182 million years old before you reached Alpha Centauri. Our universe operates according to precise astronomical laws. This is why rockets can be launched to the moon and directed to land within feet of their intended target. This is why solar and lunar eclipses can be forecast centuries in advance.
The brightness and beauty of the solar system express as no other witness can the glory and unchallenged majesty of Jehovah our God. Being the work of Jehovah’s hands, the solar system in all its expanse and beauty is inferior to its Creator. The Creator is always greater than the creation. In their solemn, silent procession through the sky, the heavens tell, declare, pour forth, and reveal the greatest and plainest truth of the universe – our God is an awesome God. With authority they make the glory of God conspicuous and with elegance pour forth an unexhausted fountain of evidence of God’s wisdom, power, majesty, skill, faithfulness, and intelligence.
The apostle Paul asserts in 1 Cor. 14:33 that our “God is not a God of confusion but of peace.” That is certainly reflected in the universe He created. The sweet singer of Israel wrote, “The heavens are telling of the glory of God; And their expanse is declaring the work of His hands (Psa. 119:1).
As powerful as the testimony of our solar system is, there are still millions who refuse to accept their testimony and evidence. Yuri Gagarin and Gherman Titov, famed Soviet Union cosmonauts, returned from orbiting earth and foolishly declared that there could be no God since they did not see Him while in outer space. Men like Gagarin must suppress the powerful, eloquent evidence of the solar system preferring their own fallible powers and feeble knowledge.
The observation of the apostle Paul in Romans 1:19-20 is so powerful “because that which is known about God is evident within them; for God made it evident to them. For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood through what has been made, so that they are without excuse.”
Let each of us open our eyes, ears, and hearts to experience our wonderful earth and praise the great Creator of all we can see and touch.
O LORD, our Lord, How majestic is Your name in all the earth, Who have displayed Your splendor above the heavens! From the mouth of infants and nursing babes You have established strength Because of Your adversaries, to make the enemy and the revengeful cease. When I consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, The moon and the stars, which You have ordained; What is man that You take thought of him, And the son of man that You care for him (Psalm 8:1-9)?
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