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God and His Creation, November 22
By the word of the Lord were the heavens made; and all the host of them by
the breath of his mouth....For he spake, and it was done; he commanded,
and it stood fast.
Psalm 33:6-9
.
We need more to be shut in the audience with God. There is need of guarding
our own thoughts. We are surely living amid the perils of the last days. We must
walk before God meekly, with deep humility, for it is only such that will be exalted.
O how little man can comprehend the perfection of God, His omnipresence
united with His almighty power. A human artist receives his intelligence from
God. He can only fashion his work in any line to perfection from materials
already prepared for his work. In his finite power he could not create and make
his materials to serve his purpose if the Great Designer had not been before him,
giving him the very improvements first in his imagination.
The Lord God commands things into being. He was the first Designer. He is
not dependent on man, but graciously invites man’s attention, and cooperates with
him in progressive and higher designs. Then man takes all the glory to himself,
and is extolled by his fellow men as a very remarkable genius. He looks no higher
than man. The one First Cause is forgotten....
I am afraid we have altogether too cheap and common ideas. “Behold, the
heaven and heaven of heavens cannot contain thee” (
1 Kings 8:27
). Let not anyone
venture to limit the power of the Holy One of Israel. There are conjectures and
questions in regard to God’s work—“Put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for the
place whereon thou standest is holy ground” (
Exodus 3:5
)....
In the formation of our world, God was not beholden to preexistent substance
or matter. For the “things which are seen were not made of things which do
appear” (
Hebrews 11:3
). On the contrary, all things, material or spiritual, stood up
before the Lord Jehovah at His voice, and were created for His own purpose. The
heavens and all the host of them, the earth and all things that are therein, are not
only the work of His hand; they came into existence by the breath of His mouth.
The Lord had given evidence that by His power He could in one short hour
dissolve the whole frame of nature. He can turn things upside down, and destroy
the things that man has built up in his most firm and substantial manner....In
fires, in floods, in earthquakes, in the fury of the great deep, in calamities by sea
and by land, the warning is given that God’s Spirit will not always strive with
men.—
Manuscript 127, November 22, 1897
, untitled manuscript.
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