Sinclair Ferguson

I don't know how long it took me for it to dawn on me that there is something quite spectacular about becoming a Christian.

I became a Christian because I was conscious of my sin and I knew I needed a Savior.

And by God's grace, I found the Savior.

What I didn't expect to find that still opens my mind in awe and wonder is that in coming to know the Savior, I'd actually come to know the Creator of the whole cosmos.

and that coming to know him as Savior meant that I now could look on the creation with fresh eyes, that it was created by the one who came into it in order to save me.

That's why one of my most vivid memories as a youngster singing hymns comes in those words I quoted earlier on in the week from Anna Laetitia Waring that are so true, that when you come to Christ as Savior, you discover that He is also the Creator, and something lives in every hue that Christless eyes have never seen.

I hope that's true for you too.

We've been thinking this week about God's revelation of Himself in creation.

His creation apocalypse, as we might say.

And we've been seeing just how all-embracing that revelation is.

It not only surrounds us in the created order, but it also invades us because we are part of that created order, and especially because we've been created as the image of God.

Now the Bible teaches us that even though we've distorted that image by our sinfulness, it hasn't been destroyed.

We can try to suppress that fact, the fact that we know that God is and that we are made as His image and likeness, but we can never ultimately destroy it.

So there's no escape from revelation.

We're spectators of it and we are participants in it.

Everyone who claims to be an atheist will somewhere, somehow, sometime give themselves away.

Somewhere along the line, it will become clear that the atheism that they claim is simple intellectual honesty, in fact, has deep moral roots, because deep down, as Paul says in Romans 1.30, they are haters of God.

Don't you sometimes think to yourself, why do so many of these people who tell me they don't believe in God get so angry about Him?

After all, they've just told me that He doesn't exist.

I remember coming across what I thought was a very powerful illustration of this in one of the British quality newspapers, the Daily Telegraph.