Be Still and Know - "The Lord Made The Earth By His Power"

(from www.premierchristianradio.com)

1. Jeremiah 10:12-13
   
   
   
   
   
   'The Lord made the earth by his power, and he preserves it by his wisdom. With his own understanding he stretched out the heavens. When he speaks in the thunder, the heavens roar with rain. He causes the clouds to rise over the earth. He sends the lightning with the rain and releases the wind from his storehouses.'
   
   The fact that God created the world is the foundation of the Bible’s understanding of who he is. The opening chapters of Genesis tell us how God did this, and then the rest of the Bible points back to this fundamental fact. Here in Jeremiah, the prophet laughs at the uselessness of the idols that the people were worshipping. He draws attention to the fact that, unlike the God of Israel, the idols have never created anything. They are a complete waste of time.
   
   We need to make sure that our thinking about God is continually shaped by the fact that he is our creator. Creation should be the springboard for our daily worship. The vast scale of what God created should surely make us want to burst out in praise and adoration. Let’s stand back from our amazing universe for a moment. During the daytime we can’t see very far. The sun is merely 93 million miles from earth – practically on our doorstep! – and it’s light takes just over eight minutes to reach us. But at night, it is a very different story. When it is dark, we can see stars that are light years away from us. Our closest star is Alpha Centauri – over four light years away from us – about 270,000 times further than the sun. But all of this is still very close to home. Incredibly, even with the naked eye it is possible to see Andromeda, which is 2.6 million light years away from us. With a pair of binoculars, you can see stars that are 10 million light years away. These numbers are completely mind boggling, but surely they must encourage us to respond in worship to our great Creator God.
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   Question: In what ways is your own worship inspired by creation?
   
   Prayer: Lord God of all creation, as we look at the vastness of our universe we fall down before you in worship and adoration. Amen