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True Knowledge of God
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“He hath made the earth by His power,
He hath established the world by His wisdom,
And hath stretched out the heavens by His discretion.”
Jeremiah 10:10, 11, 16, 12.
Nature Is Not God
God’s handiwork in nature is not God Himself in nature. The
things of nature are an expression of God’s character and power;
but we are not to regard nature as God. The artistic skill of human
beings produces very beautiful workmanship, things that delight the
eye, and these things reveal to us something of the thought of the
designer; but the thing made is not the maker. It is not the work, but
the workman, that is counted worthy of honor. So while nature is an
expression of God’s thought, it is not nature, but the God of nature,
that is to be exalted.
“Let us worship and bow down:
Let us kneel before the Lord.”
“In His hand are the deep places of the earth;
The heights of the mountains are His also.
The sea is His, and He made it;
And His hands formed the dry land.”
Psalm 95:6; 95:4, 5, A.R.V.
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“Seek Him that maketh the Pleiades and Orion,
And turneth the shadow of death into the morning,
And maketh the day dark with night;”
“He that formeth the mountains, and createth the wind,
And declareth unto man what is His thought;”
“He that buildeth His spheres in the heaven,
And hath founded His arch [Noyes’s translation]
in the earth;”
“He that calleth for the waters of the sea,