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Nature, the Key to Unlock Treasure House of God’s
Word, April 18
Growing in Wisdom and Knowledge
Consider the wondrous works of God ... the wondrous works of
him which is perfect in knowledge.
Job 37:14-16
The whole natural world is designed to be an interpreter of the things
of God. To Adam and Eve in their Eden home nature was full of the
knowledge of God, teeming with divine instruction. To their attentive
ears it was vocal with the voice of wisdom. Wisdom spoke to the eye,
and was received into the heart; for they communed with God in His
created works.... In the natural world God has placed in the hands of the
children of men the key to unlock the treasure house of His Word. The
unseen is illustrated by the seen; divine wisdom, eternal truth, infinite
grace, are understood by the things that God has made.
As the dwellers of Eden learned from nature’s pages, as Moses
discerned God’s handwriting on the Arabian plains and mountains, and
the Child Jesus on the hillsides of Nazareth, so the children of today
may learn of Him.... On everything upon the earth, from the loftiest tree
of the forest to the lichen that clings to the rock, from the boundless
ocean to the tiniest shell on the shore, they may behold the image and
superscription of God.
Here are mysteries that the mind will become strong in searching
out.... All may find themes for study in ... the spires of grass covering the
earth with their green velvet carpet, the plants and flowers, ... the lofty
mountains, the granite rocks, ... the precious gems of light studding the
heavens to make the night beautiful, the exhaustless riches of the sunlight,
the solemn glories of the moon, the winter’s cold, the summer’s heat, the
changing, recurring seasons, in perfect order and harmony, controlled
by infinite power; here are subjects which call for deep thought, for the
stretch of the imagination.
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