March 17, 2025 - Good Morning! It’s Monday, March 17.
Happy St. Patrick’s Day! We continue with our six-part series on the Creator and His creation, which will end this Thursday, the first day of spring. Our focus this morning is on the theological term “general revelation”. This is the idea that God reveals Himself, reveals His nature, through natural things - like His creation.
In Psalm 19:1, the psalmist puts it like this, “The heavens declare the glory of our God, the whole earth shows His handiwork.” The Apostle Paul, in Romans 1:19-20, writes, “What may be known about God is plain to men, because God has made it plain to them. For since the creation of the world, God’s invisible qualities - His eternal power and divine nature - have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse.”
In 1960, Barbara Gaultney, a 25-year-old writer from Atlanta, Georgia, described her experience with God through these lyrics -
In the lightning flash across the sky His mighty power I see
And I know if He can reign on high His light can shine on me
I’ve seen it in the lightning, heard it in the thunder, and felt it in the rain
My Lord is near me all the time. My Lord is near me all the time.
This song of testimony and praise made it into the Baptist Hymnal in 1975 - the year that Barbara Gaultney died, at the age of 39. She was plagued by chronic health issues her entire life, spending her last years bedridden and blind. Her writing gave her purpose and peace - and her Lord was near her all the time.
Meet you back here tomorrow,
David
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