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Nature Reveals God, November 18
Lift up your eyes on high, and behold who hath created these things, that
bringeth out their host by number: he calleth them all by names by the
greatness of his might, for that he is strong in power; not one faileth.
Isaiah 40:26
.
Pantheistic ideas regarding God in nature are framed by Lucifer, the fallen
angel. The strange part of the matter is that these ideas have been accepted by
so many as beautiful truth. But that which they think is light will lead them into
dense darkness. It is a distinguishing feature of the experience of Seventh-day
Adventists to give glory to God. When we give glory to human agencies, when
we have unlimited confidence in man, speaking of the excellence that we suppose
him to possess, we worship we know not what. Let God be exalted. Let frail,
erring human beings humble themselves before Him....
I have had much to say of the glory of God as seen in His created works,
but never have I left the impression that our God Omnipotent, who ruleth in the
heavens and fills all the heavens, is to be found in flower and leaf and tree. What
I have said of God’s works in nature was meant to lead the mind from nature to
nature’s God, to show that all the glory should be given to Him who ruleth in the
heavens....
Men are to discharge their duty to God. They are to have reverence for and
a knowledge of a personal God. They are to praise and glorify His name as the
One who has placed many beautiful things in this sin-corrupted earth, that from
the child to the man and woman of mature years, all may see that God loves His
family here below. He so loves us that He gave us a tangible proof of His love
by sending His only begotten Son to bear the sin of the world, that whosoever
believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
God desires us to think of the height and depth and breadth of His measureless
love, which is without a parallel, and to remember that we are His purchased
possession. “Ye are not your own, for ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify
God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s” (see
1 Corinthians 6:19, 20
).
We are to act as in the sight of the heavenly universe, conscientiously discharging
our obligations to our Creator.
The world is to be taken captive by Satan’s deceiving representations. Where
then is our security? How shall we guard against Satan’s bewitching artifices? By
reading the Word of God with an intensity of desire to know Him in the light of
revelation which He has left on record of Himself.—
Letter 253a, November 18,
1903
, to Dr. J. H. Kellogg, who was entertaining pantheistic concepts.
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