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All Nature Upheld by God, January 22
And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.
Colossians 1:17
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As regards this earth, Scripture declares the work of creation to
have been completed. “The works were finished from the foundation
of the world.”
Hebrews 4:3
. But the power of God is still exercised in
upholding the objects of His creation.... Every breath, every pulsation
of the heart, is an evidence of the care of Him in whom we live and
move and have our being.
Not by its own inherent energy does the earth produce its bounties,
and year by year continue its motion around the sun. An unseen hand
guides the planets in their circuit of the heavens.
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.
Many teach that matter possesses vital power, ... and that the opera-
tions of nature are conducted in harmony with fixed laws, with which
God Himself cannot interfere. This is false science, and is not sustained
by the Word of God. Nature is the servant of her Creator. God does not
annul His laws, or work contrary to them; but He is continually using
them as His instruments.
God’s handiwork in nature is not God Himself in nature.... While
nature is an expression of God’s thought, it is not nature but the God of
nature that is to be exalted.
There is in nature the continual working of the Father and the Son.
Christ says, “My Father worketh hitherto, and I work.”
John 5:17
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The hand that sustains the worlds in space, the hand that holds in
their orderly arrangement and tireless activity all things throughout the
universe of God, is the hand that was nailed to the cross for us.
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