When the LORD created the heavens and the earth and all that was in it, He authored and brought into being a majestic and marvelous world.
Our hearts grasp this more fully as we are being renewed in Christ. Our minds bring our thoughts more often to exalt God’s name as we conformed to the Way, the Truth, and the Life. Our wills move us to eager service of our Creator and Redeemer God as we are put to death our old nature and put on our new nature. Through it all, the display of God’s glory in His creation continues to stun us and move us to wonder.
“Praise the LORD! I will give thanks to the LORD with my whole heart, in the company of the upright, in the congregation. Great are the works of the LORD, studied by all who delight in them. Full of splendor and majesty is his work, and his righteousness endures forever. He has caused his wondrous works to be remembered; the LORD is gracious and merciful.”
In humility, we therefore strive to study the works of the Lord and delight in them. We ask questions and seek answers from God’s Word. We observe His creation and seek to give an account for what we see. We strive, with creaturely restraint, to teach truly and persuasively about the world as it was, the world as it is now, and the world as it one day shall be!
And with uplifted hearts, we await the Lion of Judah and the Lamb of God. We long for the advent of the One who declared to a world of rebellious image-bearers, “Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I am.” We cherish the kind and merciful Master who assures us, “I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world.”
So let us cry “Come Lord Jesus” to the One who declares, “Behold, I am making all things new” so that “death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away.” Allelulia! Maranatha!