Saturday 5 May 2012

Saturday Reading: Psalm 148:1-13

Key Verse: Psalm 148:5
5  Let them praise the name of the LORD: for he commanded, and they were created.

Devotion:
Is it such a strange thing that man can come up with so many gods when he sees the splendour and magnificence of everything around him? We may look at everything around us and marvel at the intricate details within so many things and then wonder how they could ever come into being by a mistake or by a random event; but that is what many people will want to believe because they cannot fathom how there could be one God over all who has created every such thing. But that is what each of us has in our hearts – whether we want to believe on it and build on it or cast it aside and make our own more complex scenarios is our choice to make.

God has given us the knowledge through His Word and has given us the explanations for what has happened and how we can know that He alone is our One True God. We have the choice as to whether we want to believe that truth or make up our own stories. But what would you feel like if you were the one who had made something rather special and someone else came along and said that they had made it instead? How would you feel if they tried to take your place? How little we tend to think of God in those ways, as the recipient of our misgivings or our lies…

No matter how much we try to think up some fantastic story about how the world began or how much we learn about the science behind it all, we still continue to learn and find out more. God, on the other hand, is the one who created it all. Don’t you think that He would know exactly how things happened? And yet, here we are, trying to come up with more complex and random ideas about how things could possibly have happened by chance. I guess we must look a bit silly at times when looked at from the outside, from God’s perspective!

As a programmer I could write a program that looked right and that sounded great but would not run because it is not logically correct. I could also write a program that was logically correct but one that would not run because of spelling mistakes. Just because I could come up with those two scenarios that sounded great, does not mean that they were correct. We have to follow God’s rules and God’s Word in order to find out the real truth. As we do find out that truth we can then glory in everything that He has done and learn to rightly praise His name!

Points to Ponder:
Do you like to look intelligent?

How does your intellect compare with God’s?