Praise the Incorruptible God

Psalm 94:8-11 extols the God Who created mankind by appealing to the ability to reason He has given us:  "Understand, you senseless among the people; and you fools, when will you be wise? ⁹ He who planted the ear, shall He not hear? He who formed the eye, shall He not see? ¹⁰ He who instructs the nations, shall He not correct, He who teaches man knowledge? ¹¹ The LORD knows the thoughts of man, that they are futile."  Everything the human body can do God does infinitely better.  If God was blind He would never have considered creating an eye, and if He could not hear He would not have given us ears.  Eyes, ears and brains serve the purposes God intended, that we would see, hear and consider.

The Bible tells us God created man in His own image and likeness.  Though our thoughts and abilities are merely a shadow of God's infinite understanding and supremacy, they do provide hints of our almighty Creator.  We are able to dismiss advice as senseless, and in His infinite wisdom God knows the foolish.  Parents teach their children and some teach others as their paid profession, and thus all men need God to teach them.  Our knowledge can be great on a particular subject of interest, yet our knowledge is nothing compared to God's.  The most praiseworthy prodigy among people is mere hint of a shadow of which our Masterful God is the substance.

Because the skill or knowledge of others can exceed our own, we can be moved to envy them; we can flip to the other extreme and worship them.  The fact people are moved to worship creation is evidence there is a Creator worthy of worship.  Romans 1:20-23 reads, "For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead, so that they are without excuse, ²¹ because, although they knew God, they did not glorify Him as God, nor were thankful, but became futile in their thoughts, and their foolish hearts were darkened. ²² Professing to be wise, they became fools, ²³ and changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like corruptible man--and birds and four-footed animals and creeping things."  God's invisible attributes are revealed in part by what He has made, even His eternal power.  Because God has given us eyes to see and minds to understand, we are without excuse.  Man's folly cannot be justified in this matter, for it is a grave sin to give glory God deserves to corruptible things created by Him.

How good it is when we are awed by the beauty in nature, the power of an athlete or the skill of an artist that we praise and exalt the God who has given such things for our enjoyment and revelation concerning Himself.  We are privileged beyond reckoning for the goodness of God we see in the land of the living day by day, and it is God Who has given us today.  The things we marvel over, the things that amaze us in a good sense, when we are baffled by the complexity of the human body, the feelings of a spouse or the timeliness of wise advice, let us worship God.  We appreciate a good sense of humour:  isn't God to thank for that as well?  Our hearts and minds are created to venerate and worship, and let us choose to offer God all our praise because He alone is worthy.  In everyday things God shows Himself to be beyond extraordinary.