Weekly insights from Chuck Colson and great saints of the past and present

God’s beauty and glory are all around. Are we paying attention?

“The beauty of the world gives us a primary clue about the character of this Logos, often defined as the plan of creation. The scientist may look at the white clouds of apple blossoms as nothing more than an adaptive response, but if only an adaptive response were required, why this dazzling display? And why should the ingenious cooperation of the blossoms and the bees be called for? Christians wonder why beauty should exist in such abundance if the creative reason did not mean to communicate love.”
-Chuck Colson, The Faith

“Yet of His being who shall be able to speak? Of how He is everywhere present and invisible, or of how He fills heaven and earth and every creature…Therefore God is everywhere, utterly vast, and everywhere night at hand, according to His own witness of Himself…Understand the creation, if you wish to know the Creator; if you will not know the former either, be silent concerning the Creator, but believe in the Creator.
- Columbanus, Sermon I

“I wist not what to wish, yet sure thought I,
If so much excellence abide below,
How excellent is He that dwells on high,
Whose power and beauty by his works we know?
Sure he is goodness, wisdom, glory, light,
That hath this under world so richly dight;
More heaven than earth was here, no winter and no night.”
-Anne Bradstreet, Contemplations

“It is most evident by the works of God, that his understanding and power are infinite; for he that hath made all things out of nothing, and upholds, and governs, and manages all things every moment, in all ages, without growing weary, must be of infinite power. He must also be of infinite knowledge; for if he made all things, and upholds and governs all things continually, it will follow, the he knows and perfectly sees all things, great and small, in heaven and earth, continually at one view…Being thus infinite in understanding and power, he must also be perfectly holy…”
-Jonathan Edwards, Sermon on Psalm 46:10

“In past generations he allowed all the nations to walk in their own ways. Yet he did not leave himself without a witness, for he did good by giving you rains from heaven and fruitful seasons, satisfying your hearts with food and gladness.”
-Acts 14:16, 17

For more insight to this subject, get the book, Creation: Remarkable Evidence of God’s Design, by Grant R. Jeffrey, from our online store.

Or read the article, “Speaking Everywhere,” by T. M. Moore.