Robbed of Wonder

When people try to explain the world without reference to its Creator, they rob themselves of the truth and of the wonder this truth should evoke in us. Today, R.C. Sproul reminds us that creation is filled with the glory of God.

Look at the frontiers of science. We have had startling, marvelous new discoveries of outer space and what many believe is the confirmation of the big bang theory of the creation of the world. And I was excited, but I was really excited when the Hubble spacecraft went up. That’s really interesting to me.

And I read the paper two weeks ago. I was in a restaurant when I read it. I shook my head and I called the waitress over and I said, “What’s wrong with this?” And I read it and it said, “Scientists have now discovered that matter was created when matter and energy exploded.” I said, “What’s the matter with that?” We have matter being created after it already was there. Notice that won’t work.

And then I’m riding down the street and I listen to news commentator who said, “Well, we’ve got such-and-such physicist, astrophysicist from University of Berkeley or so on, has declared that fifteen billion years ago, the universe exploded into being.” It exploded into being. What was it before it exploded? Nonbeing? The guy’s talking nonsense.

Instead of modern man being like Newton and people of that ilk in that generation who saw the task of the scientist as thinking God’s thoughts after Him, we’re the most arrogant generation in human history because we think that by describing reality we’ve explained it. And we don’t have a sense of wonder. And we feel sorry for people like Moses and Abraham who were so naive, so hopelessly primitive, so hopelessly prescientific, they see the invisible hand of God behind every bush. I wish I could be that naive. Because the Old Testament makes it clear that His hand is behind every bush. And there can’t be a bush without the being of God. And heaven and earth are full of His glory. And His glory is wonderful and marvelous and astonishing, and most important, worthy of worship.