ROMANS 1:20

For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse. 

TO PONDER: 

I remember as a small child laying in the sun on a summer day, staring into the sky, identifying various objects created by the shape of the clouds and suddenly becoming overwhelmed by the immensity of the sky as I wondered how I didn’t fall off into space. I had to go inside to escape the thoughts. 

Today’s verse is probably my favourite verse, or at least in the top five verses I obsess over.  

In staring into creation we can see God’s divine nature, we can experience God. 

Creation was an act of God’s grace, an incredible, overwhelming, extravagant, act of his love and grace. God didn’t need the earth, God didn’t need the cosmos, and God definitely didn’t need mankind to meet a deep deficiency. The beauty of the incomprehensible trinity is that God was never lonely, never needy, always love. 

Ephesians 1:3-6 tells us that before there was a before, before time existed, before creation, He had already chosen us to share in his unreasonable hospitality, his unfathomable love, his uncountable blessings. 

The fine-tuning phenomenon of the cosmos points to a creator, the universe was specifically designed to support life to an infinite degree, if one of the constants of the universe was even slightly askew life, especially conscious life would not exist but God’s divine nature is extravagantly displayed within the beauty of creation. 

The colours, the grandeur, the music of nature all were a display of God’s loving amazing grace. 

PRAYER: 

Creator God, I thank you for the act of your amazing grace displayed in your creation, creation which was finely tuned for me, finely tuned so I could share in all of your blessing. Amen. 

Today's devotion is written by Danny Brock, LifeWay Westside