The unfathomable majesty of our Creator God

"I sing the almighty power of God, that made the mountains rise,
That spread the flowing seas abroad, and built the lofty skies.
I sing the wisdom that ordained the sun to rule the day;
The moon shines full at God’s command, and all the stars obey." Isaac Watts

I felt drawn to just extemporise a little on these timeless words of the English language's answer to King David, that eminent hymn-writer Isaac Watts.

To think that God spoke and mountains, in all their cragginess, in their rugged, word-defying beauty just rose from nothing should evoke in us such a wonder as to make us say with Isaiah of old "I am undone!" How anyone, much less the child of God can meditate upon God's general revelation in nature and not sing of the almighty power of God just shows the crippling corruption of our sinful, idolatrous hearts (and I count myself as chief offender here!).

To look at the dangerous power of the sea and the vast expanse of the skies should evoke in us a sense of the total transendence of God and these are but shadows of all He is.

To ponder the omniscient wisdom of a God that designed the moon and stars to give us light at night and a sun to give us heat and light in the day time must needs leave one exultant at the totally stupendous wonder of Jehovah.

That such a God should think of man in the light of His total otherness in comparison to us, in the light of the fact that He never had to be born or learn and that it didn't even cost him one Joule of energy is staggering. Watts says that "all that borrows life from Thee is ever in Thy care". What a thought! The fact of these things alone should make us seek after God but He had to put His love on public display on the cross. He had to bloody His own son and desert the very heart of His own heart to commend His love to the worms of the dust that we are! Oh how we ought to exalt Him! Oh what sinners we are!

Bless His name for ever.