God’s awesome power shown through nature.

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“Have you comprehended the expanse of the earth? Declare, if you know all this… Have you entered the storehouses of the snow, or have you seen the storehouses of the hail… What is the way to the place where the light is distributed, or where the east wind is scattered upon the earth?” Job 38: 18, 22, and 24 English Standard Version

Bear Lake, Rocky Mountain National Park.

I would love to be a storm chaser. Growing up on the plains of Colorado, I was in a perfect spot to enjoy plenty of severe thunderstorms and occasionally witness the potential for a tornado.

Storms aren’t always pleasant to endure, however. If you get stuck in a blizzard or an area impacted by a flash flood, hurricane, or tornado, you don’t want to be there unless you are a storm chaser.

There will always be storm chasers, there will always be the study of weather and its patterns. But we will never reach the full depths of the knowledge of how weather works for several reasons.

First, we look in the wrong place for our source of knowledge, we prescribe the power of nature to “mother nature” or the power of the universe. Nature has no power, it is submissive to God alone. Second, the God that it obeys is unsearchable (Romans 11:33), we could never comprehend God in all his perfection and holiness. Third, although nature belongs to God and is subject to his will and power, nature is not sufficient in our knowledge of God, he provided a much better way by which we are to know him.

“And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth” John 1:14 English Standard Version

In Christ the fullness of God was pleased to dwell (Colossians 1:19). It is through Christ that we are saved, through Christ that we know God, and through Christ that we receive grace. Let us enjoy the beauty of creation in the knowledge that it belongs to, and is for Christ (1 Corinthians 8:6).

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