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"Long ago you laid the foundation of the earth and made the heavens with your hands." Psalm 102:25 New Living Translation
The Word of God is powerful. It creates the heavens and the earth. It redeems our lives. Yet the psalmist who wrote these words speaks of God using his hands in the act of creating.
The Scriptures use language that we can understand, language that paints a picture in our minds. We know that God is spirit (John 4:24), but in this poem the psalmist pictures God with hands, hands that make the heavens, hands that lay the foundation of the world.
Creation itself is in the hands of God.
We have a tendency to mess up God's creation when it is in our hands. This is not a political statement, but a theological observation. It seems that there are always consequences for creation when we try to play God with it.
Yes, God created this world for us, the crown of his creation, but we forget about sin. Sin separates us from God and it separates us from his creation. The ability of creation to heal from the damage done by our sin is testimony to the power of redemption.
God's redeeming hand is evidenced in the world. It is evidenced through us who are the redeemed children of God through Christ our Lord. As the redeemed of God we ought to see creation differently than before we knew Christ.
We now see creation in the hands of God, and seeing creation in God's hands means we treat it as a gift not as something to be exploited, for creation itself reflects the nature of God who laid her foundations.
The Scriptures use language that we can understand, language that paints a picture in our minds. We know that God is spirit (John 4:24), but in this poem the psalmist pictures God with hands, hands that make the heavens, hands that lay the foundation of the world.
Creation itself is in the hands of God.
We have a tendency to mess up God's creation when it is in our hands. This is not a political statement, but a theological observation. It seems that there are always consequences for creation when we try to play God with it.
Yes, God created this world for us, the crown of his creation, but we forget about sin. Sin separates us from God and it separates us from his creation. The ability of creation to heal from the damage done by our sin is testimony to the power of redemption.
God's redeeming hand is evidenced in the world. It is evidenced through us who are the redeemed children of God through Christ our Lord. As the redeemed of God we ought to see creation differently than before we knew Christ.
We now see creation in the hands of God, and seeing creation in God's hands means we treat it as a gift not as something to be exploited, for creation itself reflects the nature of God who laid her foundations.
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