Sinclair Ferguson

And yesterday I was commenting on the fact that God reveals Himself in everything that He has made.

As Paul says in Romans 1, 19, His invisible attributes become visible to us in the created order.

As Paul says in Romans 1, 19, His invisible attributes become visible to us in the created order.

Isaac Watts wrote a hymn about this, I Sing the Almighty Power of God, and its last verse captures this.

Isaac Watts wrote a hymn about this, I sing the almighty power of God, and its last verse captures this.

There's not a plant or flower below, but makes your glories known, and clouds arise and tempests blow by order from your throne.

There's not a plant or flower below, but makes your glories known, and clouds arise and tempests blow by order from your throne.

I often think in this connection of some words of the great Dutch theologian Herman Bavinck.

I often think in this connection of some words of the great Dutch theologian Herman Bavinck.

He writes in his Reformed Dogmatics, According to Scripture, the whole universe is a creation, and hence also a revelation of God.

He writes in his Reformed Dogmatics, According to Scripture, the whole universe is a creation, and hence also a revelation of God.

In an absolute sense, nothing is atheistic.

In an absolute sense, nothing is atheistic.

There is no atheistic world, and there are no atheistic people, nor are there atheistic persons.

There is no atheistic world, and there are no atheistic people, nor are there atheistic persons.

I know that sounds a staggering claim, but actually it's just a paraphrase of what Paul says in Romans 1, 19 through 21, isn't it?

I know that sounds a staggering claim, but actually it's just a paraphrase of what Paul says in Romans 1, 19 through 21, isn't it?

If everything there is apart from God has been made by God,

If everything there is apart from God has been made by God,

Well, then the words of Psalm 139 are true in this particular sense.