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God’s Power Exercised Constantly in Nature, August 11
Who has measured the waters in the hollow of His hand, measured heaven
with a span and calculated the dust of the earth in a measure? Weighed the
mountains in scales and the hills in a balance?
Isaiah 40:12
, NKJV.
The psalmist says: “The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament
sheweth his handiwork. Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth
knowledge. There is no speech nor language, where their voice is not heard.” Some
may suppose that these grand things in the natural world are God. They are not
God. All these wonders in the heavens are only doing the work appointed them.
They are the Lord’s agencies. God is the superintendent, as well as the Creator, of
all things. The divine Being is engaged in upholding the things that He has created.
The same hand that holds the mountains and balances them in position guides the
worlds in their mysterious march around the sun.
There is scarcely an operation of nature to which we may not find reference in
the Word of God. The Word declares that “he maketh his sun to rise,” and the rain
to descend. He “maketh grass to grow upon the mountains.... He giveth snow like
wool: he scattereth the hoarfrost like ashes. He casteth forth his ice like morsels....
He sendeth out his word, and melteth them: he causeth his wind to blow, and the
waters flow.” “He maketh lightnings for the rain; and bringeth the wind out of his
treasuries.”
These words of Holy Writ say nothing of the independent laws of nature. God
furnishes the matter and the properties with which to carry out His plans. He
employs His agencies that vegetation may flourish. He sends the dew and the rain
and the sunshine, that verdure may spring forth, and spread its carpet over the earth;
that the shrubs and fruit trees may bud and blossom and bring forth.
It is not to be supposed that a law is set in motion for the seed to work itself,
that the leaf appears because it must do so of itself. God has laws that He has
instituted, but they are only the servants through which He effects results. It is
through the immediate agency of God that every tiny seed breaks through the earth,
and springs into life. Every leaf grows, every flower blooms, by the power of
God.—
The Review and Herald, March 17, 1904
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