Sinclair Ferguson

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.

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

Even if you take the wings of the morning and travel at the speed of light to the furthest part of the earth to flee from God,

Even if you take the wings of the morning and travel at the speed of light to the furthest part of the earth to flee from God,

When you land, you will still be confronted by the same revelation of God in creation that you were trying to escape from.