Praise from God’s Creation

Part of the bridge from Chris Tomlin’s song “Made to Worship” has been ringing in my head for the past few days. The bridge goes: “Even the rocks cry out/ Even the heavens shout/ At the sound of His Holy name.” This verse was probably in part based on Luke 19:40. The disciples were shouting praise to the Lord and the Pharisees wanted Jesus to rebuke his disciples. Yet Jesus says: “I tell you, if these were silent, the very stones would cry out.”

I live in a scientific world. Biology is my major and biology is almost all I learn. Theories and lab procedures and exciting new advances in research, etc. get filtered through my brain everyday. I’m definitely not your average science student who is über passionate about science, but more than ever I am amazed at God’s creation through science. You just read that Jesus said that even if there was no one to praise God’s holy name the stones will cry out. That’s how I feel lately; creation is yelling, screaming, hollering to those who are silent, especially to my peers who don’t believe and are sitting there studying their advanced cell biology books.

There are so many things I don’t understand. The biochemists, microbiologists and engineers even are still trying to figure out things they may never know. However, they realize the complexity of life down to the biochemical and molecular level is over our heads. Yet, they (some scientists not all, maybe even most scientists) don’t attribute these fascinating discoveries to God. The Big Bang Theory and the String Theory take the place of God. We have cell theories that we say will never change, but what happens when the mitochondria is not what we think it is? What happens when our theories crumble? We, as scientists, would have to start over and rebuild our faith in fragile theories. Psalm 97:5 says, “the mountains melt like wax before the Lord, the Lord of all the earth.” Therefore, things that may seem so strong and evident and unchanging can even come to dust under the will of the Lord.

Often people build their faith on things that we see, and we who are Christians are thought of as fools for putting our faith in what we cannot see (1 Corinthians 1:18). But even in science there is a level of the “unknown” which people cling to. So if non-Christians and Christians alike put faith in something we cannot see, who is right? Scientists say that they cannot “prove” anything and that nothing we all know scientifically is a fact. Then what is true? Where is our evidence for true things? This brings us back to the original statement: even the rocks cry out. Creation is a testimony to the Creator. The calculated growth of a baby in its mother’s womb is mind-boggling.

The truth is we can know all of these facts and we can have all the wisdom in the world, but where does it lead us when all falls apart? God says in Isaiah 29:14, “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and the discernment of the discerning I will thwart.” Even if the theories we cannot call fact are indeed factual, God wants us to remember that we are not Him and we cannot fully understand the depths of His creation. He also reminds us that he indeed created everything we witness under a microscope or with the naked eye (Job 38-41).

One of many things we can learn from science is to worship the Lord. Another thing is to know the fragility of our claims. We know so little about creation; as we fell, so did creation. Hence, we see it in a imperfect way. Let’s not pile our wisdom up on imperfect claims on creation, but let us see God’s steadfastness. Our theories may change, but God will never change. His love endures forever. He is our rock and our salvation. His Word never returns void. He will always keep his promises.

What I want us to understand is God’s unchanging nature. If we know we can’t put our hope in wisdom acquired by research, what is it in which we can hope? God knows it is Himself and He wants us to know that. We then need to put our hope in God who is forever who says He is and will never revoke His gospel from us. Do not let science or whatever you study or know a lot about be your god. Remember that when you do not give praise and glory to God, creation will do it for you.

“May the glory of the Lord endure forever, may the Lord rejoice in his works,
who looks on the earth and it trembles, who touches the mountains and they smoke!
I will sing to the Lord as long as I live;
I will sing praise to my God while I have being.
May my meditation be pleasing to him, for I rejoice in the Lord.”
Psalm 104: 31-34

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