HIS COMING LIKE CLOCKWORK

Psa. 19:1,4,6 ¶ The heavens declare the glory of God, and the sky above proclaims his handiwork. Their voice goes out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them he has set a tent for the sun, Its rising is from the end of the heavens, and its circuit to the end of them, and there is nothing hidden from its heat.

The universe is beyond amazing. This week we saw just a tiny glimpse of His vast orchestration in a solar eclipse. Eclipses are predictable because of the precise perfection of God’s creation. Everything marches forward in perfect synchronization, all pointing to the great day that lies ahead. The dance of creation is called a groan by the Apostle Paul, the groan of anticipation of God’s coming kingdom. What Paul called a groan David referred to as the voice that goes out through all the earth. This voice of the Lord opens the hearts of the hungry and calls them to a place of restoration and healing in God’s glorious dance. You are not forgotten, you too are a part of His precise perfection. Here are some comments from Jonathan Edwards on God’s clock.

“As in a clock, all the motions of the whole system of wheels and movements, tend to the striking of the hammer at the appointed time. All the revolutions and restless motions of the sun and other heavenly bodies, from day to day, from year to year, and from age to age, are continually tending hither; as all the many turnings of the wheels of a chariot, in a journey, tend to the appointed journey’s end. The mighty struggles and conflicts of nations, and shakings of kingdoms, and those vast successive changes that are brought to pass, in the kingdoms and empires of the world, from one age to another, are as it were travail pangs of the creation, in order to bring forth this glorious event. And the Scriptures represent the last struggles and changes that shall immediately precede this event, as being the greatest of all; as the last pangs of a woman in travail are the most violent.”
To glimpse God’s glory in creation causes me to bow in awe before His majestic sovereignty. He rules all things. He is the God of well timed comets, solar flares, and eclipses. The mysteries of the universe are His. The mysteries of my life and your life are also hidden in Christ. Just as we passed through the moon’s shadow last Monday, hide yourself in Him who has no shadow of turning.