God’s Marvelous Handiwork [part 3]

In this last post of this series, I would like to talk about how nature reminds us of God’s awesome power. Psalm 19:1 says The heavens are telling of the glory of God; And their expanse is declaring the work of His hands. The revealing of God’s power through creation has two affects. One is to show the believer how awesome God is. The other is to show believers that there is a God. In Romans 1:18-20, Paul tells us that because of the magnitude of God’s creation, no one has a right not to believe in God.

For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who suppress the truth in unrighteousness, because that which is known about God is evident within them; for God made it evident to them. For  since the creation of the world His invisible attributes, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood through what has been made, so that they are without excuse.

There is so much that just doesn’t make sense with the process of evolution. Look at the Ant Eater for example. The Ant Eater’s mouth isn’t made for eating anything but ants, yet there are no other animals with a mouth shaped like the ant eaters. How could the ant eater have evolved slowly? In the process of its mouth growing out, it would have lost the ability to eat normal food, and still not been able to eat ants. So if the Ant Eater were to have evolved slowly, at some time or other along the way it wouldn’t have been able to eat anything. Aka, it would have died out.

If nature has such a powerful role as to show men that there is a God, I would like to see more of this nature. Wouldn’t you?


Clearly there are more reasons that nature is important, but I don’t have time to cover them all. I would like to say real quickly that I am not an environmental whack job. Someday I’ll get around to posting my non-to-gratifying view of environmentalists, but that shall come another day. In ending, I would like to say that I encourage you to find some form of outside recreation. Whether it be hiking, biking, camping, or jogging, I think you’ll be amazed at the beauty of what God has created for you.