God In Nature
241
them, using them as His instruments. They are not self-working. God
is perpetually at work in nature. She is His servant, directed as He
[260]
pleases. Nature in her work testifies of the intelligent presence and
active agency of a being who moves in all His works according to His
will. It is not by an original power inherent in nature that year by year
the earth yields its bounties and continues its march around the sun.
The hand of infinite power is perpetually at work guiding this planet.
It is God’s power momentarily exercised that keeps it in position in its
rotation.
The God of heaven is constantly at work. It is by His power that
vegetation is caused to flourish, that every leaf appears and every
flower blooms. Every drop of rain or flake of snow, every spire of
grass, every leaf and flower and shrub, testifies of God. These little
things so common around us teach the lesson that nothing is beneath
the notice of the infinite God, nothing is too small for His attention.
The mechanism of the human body cannot be fully understood;
it presents mysteries that baffle the most intelligent. It is not as the
result of a mechanism, which, once set in motion, continues its work,
that the pulse beats and breath follows breath. In God we live and
move and have our being. Every breath, every throb of the heart, is a
continual evidence of the power of an ever-present God.
It is God that causes the sun to rise in the heavens. He opens the
windows of heaven and gives rain. He causes the grass to grow upon
the mountains. “He giveth snow like wool: He scattereth the hoarfrost
like ashes.” “When He uttereth His voice, there is a multitude of waters
in the heavens; ...He maketh lightnings with rain, and bringeth forth
the wind out of His treasures.”
Psalm 147:16
;
Jeremiah 10:13
.
The Lord is constantly employed in upholding and using as His
[261]
servants the things that He has made. Said Christ: “My Father worketh
hitherto, and I work.”
John 5:17
.
Mysteries of Divine Power
Men of the greatest intellect cannot understand the mysteries of
Jehovah as revealed in nature. Divine inspiration asks many questions
which the most profound scholar cannot answer. These questions were
not asked that we might answer them, but to call our attention to the
deep mysteries of God and to teach us that our wisdom is limited; that