“The earth, O Lord, is full of your steadfast love;
teach me your statutes!”
– Psalm 119:64
The earth is indeed full of the evidence of God’s steadfast love for all creatures made in His image! If we take off the blinders of our present lived experience and digital distraction it gets easier to see. We can see the beauty of God’s creation: mountains, oceans, lakes, trees, flowers, animals, people. We see the intricacy of how all life weaves together in the ecosystems of the world. We see the elegance of God’s laws of nature that make it possible to live, thrive, build, and explore. We see the countless ways everything works together “just right” to sustain life. God brings rain upon believer and unbeliever alike. He gives everyone the ability to learn, study, experiment, and invent. God’s steadfast love is present and active everywhere, praise Him for that!
When you catch a glimpse of that steadfast love in the world around you, does it make you reach for your Bible? It should. The psalmist sees God’s ever-present and unshakable love throughout creation and wants to know the Creator better! Seeing God’s love, he wants to know of God’s word. We too should long to know our Creator better as we wonder at His creation. When our breath is taken away by God’s handiwork, let us commit to not only praise God in the moment, but to dig deeper into His love letter to us, the Bible.
It’s through daily study of the Bible, not merely appreciation of nature, that we learn so much more about God. Yes, creation can reveal some things about our wondrous God, but there’s much it can’t. The Bible is God’s more full revelation of Himself and it points us to His greatest revelation of Himself, which is Jesus Christ. Don’t stop with praising God for His creation. Praise Him, then study Him by reading your Bible every day.