I continue this as an extension of the last post.

“Every knee will bow; let me be the first to fall before you now.”

Let that always be our hearts desire.

The longer I live, the more I know that this is not my home. I am continually reminded of this by the world in which we live; and this does not stem from solely from “our fallen world,” – which bears with it pain, hurt, and sorrow – but rather from the beauty that I see in this world, because all beauty simply points to Him, our God.

And this world is beautiful. Pictures can only begin to capture its magnificence, and will never do it justice. “A picture is worth a 1000 words;” I would argue that in many circumstances a picture is worth tens of thousands of words, for someone could easily write several pages discussing only the way the sunlight rests upon the leaves I see outside my window right now…

The endless stars arrayed through the night sky, the clouds set in a red-orange blaze at sunset, the ragged mountains rising out of the landscape capped with a pure blanket of snow; although so beautiful, they compare nothing with the beauty of our God. Nothing can do Him justice, besides He Himself. And so my heart longs to be with Him in eternity, because everything we see and experience in this world that is good and beautiful, give us just the slightest taste of His great majesty and goodness. I hope these scriptures will spark some of the same longings upon your hearts.

God’s word says:

“The heavens declare the glory of God, and the sky above proclaims his handiwork. Day to day pours out speech, and night to night reveals knowledge. There is no speech, nor are there words, whose voice is not heard. Their voice goes out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world.” – Psalm 19:1-4

As stated. The things of creation simply give just the slightest taste of His infinity, beauty, and vastness. They are His “handiwork.” They are like a tiny picture, the smallest sliver of the majesty that our great God holds between His fingers. To say it is even a sliver of the image of God, cannot be said, for our God is infinite and nothing can comprehend infinite goodness.

“When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place…” – Psalm 8:3

The stars, our God just flicks them into existence. He flicks our sun, the moon, solar systems, and galaxies all into being. Creation is one of the greatest preachers I know – for it is all from the design and hands of our Creator.

If this is what our God flicks into existence, oh how endless He is! How are we supposed to imagine all the beauty He possesses, “beauty” itself cannot describe Him, it can do no justice! If I spoke with the words of 10,000 languages my description of Him could not begin to declare what He and His glorious kingdom must be like.

What a glorious day it will be when we are united with Him in eternity! To spend an eternity in worship of the God of all things! How glorious and awe inspiring! Forever we shall sing hallelujah with all the saints!

The splendor of our God… Let it forever humble us, and consume our hearts. Let us be in reverent fear and awe of our God who freely pours out His endless grace to us. What have we done to deserve any notice? We have done nothing more than betray our Savior who loved us first (1 John 4:19). Yet He is mindful of us, and it is ridiculous to realize this is so… For,

“what is man that you are mindful of him, and the son of man that you care for him? Yet you have made him a little lower than the heavenly beings, and crowned him with glory and honor.” – Psalm 8:4-5

Read those verses of Psalm 8:3-9, and just allow yourself to be humbled by His infinity, and that even in all His infinity, He loves and cares for you and I. In the scale of all things, we are nothing, we can offer Him nothing, He needs nothing, yet He has CHOSEN you and I.

“But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which He LOVED us, even when we were DEAD in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ…” – Ephesians 2: 4-6

The implications of this verse extend far beyond the scope of what I have written here, I will later include something on our depravity, and the irresistible grace of our God.

Let us be simply be humbled at the majesty of our God, that He who created all we see, do, and live our lives in, loves us so dearly and chooses to give us His attention. Try to imagine the kingdom of God with which we will be able to spend eternity! I mean, it is impossible for us to imagine, but we can try, we know it will be beyond the beauty of anything of this life! What glorious glory!

Truly and heart fully, go and spend some time sitting in quite awe before Him. That we are already entering eternity with our savior. I hope it leaves you speechless and passionately thankful with a burning heart in your chest for the goodness of Him that loved you first and created all that you behold.

To Him be the glory and power for ever and ever. Amen.