The Meyer Minute for June 4, 2013

I teased a friend yesterday, “Didn’t see you in church Sunday.” “Went fishing,” he said. “I worshiped in the cathedral of creation. Indeed, creation is God’s great cathedral and last evening I sat in one corner of the cathedral, my brother’s well-tended back yard. I was reminded of the hymn, “Ye forest leaves, so green and tender, that dance for joy in summer air; Ye meadow grasses bright and slender, ye flowers so wondrous, sweet and fair; ye live to show His praise alone. With me now make His glory known.”

But in Oklahoma the cathedral of creation turned into the house of horrors. What conclusion can we draw? That God is capricious? That He teases us with nature’s beauty, lures us into complacency about His being, and then slams us with unstoppable destruction? We may be adults but like cowering children we know the cathedral is a big, scary place. We need a revelation, something more than nature, to teach us the being of God, to assure us that His thoughts toward us are good and loving. When Jesus says, “Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will not pass away,” He’s reminding us that the cathedral of creation isn’t enough. (Matthew 24:35)