Sinclair B. Ferguson

And, of course, not all scientists have that kind of disposition.

But some of them are, like I remember as a youngster, Yuri Gagarin, the first Russian cosmonaut, going up into space and coming back down and saying, I went there to the edge of the universe, which, of course, he didn't, and there was no God.

You know, if that ever did happen, I think we might be justified in saying, we Christians have been telling you that for centuries.

We've been telling you that when you get to the edge of the cosmos, you will find nothing because God has created all things out of nothing.

And after all, the eternal God is not going to be subject to your little scientific experimentations.

No, the age-old question that philosophers have always asked and scientists still seek to penetrate, why is there something and not nothing, is a question that's answered right in the very first chapter of the Bible, right in the very first verse.

It is because God has revealed himself in creation.

The uncreated God has made all things.

And if you think about it, that inevitably means that everything that God has made reveals him.

If something is created by a creator, then that created thing reveals the creator, just as the work of a great artist reveals himself.

just as art experts can tell you, I see the characteristic signs of this great artist in this particular painting.

And so the Scriptures teach us, if we have eyes to see, then we will recognize that everything in the universe bears this stamp, made by God and revealing Him.

Paul puts it like this in Romans 1, verse 19, God's invisible attributes have been clearly perceived ever since the creation of the world in the things that have been made.

John Calvin puts it, I think, delightfully when he says this,

The acts of creation were like God putting on his outside clothes in order that we might see who he is, what he is like, and what he has done.

It's in this way that the invisible God makes his invisible attributes known to us invisible things.

And that's revelation.

But we're blind to it because of our sin.

And our eyes are opened to it by the grace of Jesus Christ.

That's why the hymn writer Anna Laetitia Waring once wrote, something lives in every hue that Christless eyes have never seen.