Words of Grace

By Rev. Mahlon Nevel

We celebrate “Earth Day”, but we forget the Creator of the earth. Twice in the book of Deuteronomy we are told to beware, lest we forget the Lord our God. (6:12; 8:11)

The Creator of the ends of the earth, as he is called in Isaiah 40:28, does not like to be forgotten, but loves to be remembered. “Remember now thy Creator.” (Ecclesiastes 12:1)

Isaiah 45:18 tells us that it was God himself who formed the Earth. He did not create it in vain, to be empty. He created the Earth to be inhabited.

The created earth is the Lord’s and the fullness of it; the world and all that dwell in it. (Psalm 24:1) when God created the world, he intended it to be full, to be filled with an inhabitants.

All the earth is commanded to fear the Lord, and all the inhabitants of the world are to stand in awe before the Creator of all things. (Psalm 33:8) It was Rich Mullins who wrote:

“Our Lord is an awesome God; he reigns from heaven above with wisdom, power and love; Our God is an awesome God.”

Romans 1:25 tells of how the truth of God was changed into a lie when people begun to worship the creation more than they worship the Creator. David’s desire was that the Creator would be worshipped, and not the creation. He prayed:

“Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens: and thy glory above all the Earth” (Psalms 108:5).