God’s Creative Energy Upholds the Universe
He covers the sky with clouds; he supplies the earth with rain and makes grass grow on the hills. He provides food for the cattle and for the young ravens when they call. Psalm 147:8, 9, NIV. While the Bible should hold the first place in the education of children and youth, the book of nature […]
God’s Words Created His Works
By the word of the Lord were the heavens made; and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth. Psalm 33:6. The material world is under God’s control. The laws that govern all nature are obeyed by nature. Everything speaks and acts the will of the Creator. The clouds, the rain, the dew, […]
Yielding to the Master Potter
But now, O Lord, thou art our father; we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all are the work of Thy hand. Isaiah 64:8. While the human agent is devising and planning for himself something that God has withheld him from doing, he has a hard time. He complains and frets, and has […]
Our Vital Force
And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years: and he died. Genesis 5:5. The book of Genesis gives quite a definite account of social and individual life, and yet we have no record of an infant’s being born blind, deaf, crippled, deformed, or imbecile. There is not an instance upon record […]
Joseph Honored the Creator
The king … made him master of his household, ruler over all he possessed, to discipline his princes as he pleased and teach his elders wisdom. Psalm 105:20-22, NIV. From the dungeon Joseph was exalted to be ruler over all the land of Egypt. It was a position of high honor, yet it was beset with […]
Power to Multiply
Elisha said, “Give to the men, that they may eat.” But his servant said, “How am I to set this before a hundred men?” So he repeated, “Give them to the men, that they may eat.” 2 Kings 4:42, 43, RSV. “And there came a man from Baal-shalisha, and brought the man of God bread of […]
