“Who let the wild donkey go free?
Who untied its ropes?
I gave it the wasteland as its home,
the salt flats as its habitat.
It laughs at the commotion in the town;
it does not hear a driver’s shout.
It ranges the hills for its pasture
and searches for any green thing.
“Will the wild ox consent to serve you?
Will it stay by your manger at night?
Can you hold it to the furrow with a harness?
Will it till the valleys behind you?
Will you rely on it for its great strength?
Will you leave your heavy work to it?
Can you trust it to haul in your grain
and bring it to your threshing floor?
- Job 39:5-12
“Which of you, if your son asks for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a snake? If you, then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him!
- Matthew 7:9-11
“Q. What do you believe when you say: I believe in God the Father almighty, Creator of heaven and earth?
That the eternal Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who out of nothing created heaven and earth and all that is in them, and who still upholds and governs them by his eternal counsel and providence, is, for the sake of Christ his Son, my God and my Father. In him I trust so completely as to have no doubt that he will provide me with all things necessary for body and soul, and will also turn to my good whatever adversity he sends me in this life of sorrow. He is able to do so as almighty God, and willing also as a faithful Father.
Gen 1 and 2; Ex 20:11; Job 38 and 39; Ps 33:6; Is 44:24; Acts 4:24; 14:15.
Ps 104:27-30; Mt 6:30; 10:29; Eph 1:11.
Jn 1:12, 13; Rom 8:15, 16; Gal 4:4-7; Eph 1:5.
Ps 55:22; Mt 6:25, 26; Lk 12:22-31.
Rom 8:28.
Gen 18:14; Rom 8:31-39.
Mt 6:32, 33; 7:9-11.
- Heidelberg Catechism, Question 26
The Message
I just watched a television show where this physicist, a Nobel laureate, who lived about 100 years ago had written a book on the origins of living organisms. He argued very convincingly that all life on earth had to exist by some sort of intelligent design. Too many things had to be in place, all at the same time, for life to happen.
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But then, being an atheist, he rejected his logical argument and stated that all life came about by random chance, in fact, dumb luck.
When our philosophy overwhelms our logical conclusions, it is no longer science. But that is where we are and what is being taught as science when it comes to evolution and the origins of everything.
In Romans 1:20, Paul states that the proof that God designed and created everything is obvious, so that no one will have an excuse to not believe. They willingly choose not to believe.
We rely on God for everything, those that believe in Him. Yes, a Social Security check must go into the bank for me to be able to pay my bills, but the government is money hungry. They have tried to take that money away. What force prevents that from happening? God is sovereign.
We go to the grocery store and expect food to be there. Sure, the grocery purchases the food from distributors or from the farmers directly. But God provides the rain, sunlight, and nutrition in the soil in season.
I was talking to one of my favorite checkout clerks at the grocery store. She said that the rain outside was so wonderful – very sarcastically. I said that if she was in Florida, they call what was happening “liquid sunshine” – a play on the fact that it rains a lot in Florida, the Sunshine State. The clerk said, “In Pennsylvania, they call it “liquid hell” – a reality that when it rains all day long, somewhere in the area there would be a flash flood, and the odds of someone losing their house or everything in the house was a possibility.
But growing up on a farm, farmers relied on a window in the Spring rains at just the right time to plant their crop. Too wet, and the tractor would sink in the mud. Then, the farmer relies on the rain renewing with alternate patches of sunshine to grow the crops. Then, in harvest season, the farmer depends again on a gap in the rains to harvest the crop. When the hay is cut, no one sleeps until it is bailed to prevent mildew ruining the crop. Harvest day of those types of crops relies heavily on that one good dry day.
And when I was young, the farmers believed in God. Otherwise, they only had chance, and the last time they went to a slot machine, they lost their shirt.
God the Father is who we rely on for life itself.
And now let us sing.
Here is Immortal, Invisible, God Only Wise sung by Chet Valley, South Norfolk, UK.
Closing Prayer
Dear Lord,
We believe in You. God, our Father. You are immortal and invisible, but we see Your handiwork in the largest of things and the smallest of things. All it takes to see You is to look beyond our philosophies. And then, only one philosophy, a belief and trust in You is the only viable option.
In Thy name we pray,
Amen
Soli Deo Gloria. Only to God be the Glory.
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