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By Pastor Glenn Pease
In our 5,536 mile trip to Santa Clara and back, we saw the incredible handiwork of God like we never saw it before.
The Grand Canyon was so awesome and scary to me with my fear of heights.
All of my pictures have the railing in them because I could not get close enough to lean over it.
We saw the beauty of the mountains and forests around Lake Tahoe that make it such a popular place.
We saw the painted desert and the petrified forests, and the great variety of flowers and palm trees of California plus the vast fields of grapes.
We saw the wonders of mans creativity also in the most unusual city we have ever seen-Santa Fe, New Mexico.
We saw there the oldest house and church in the USA.
Everywhere we went there were masses of other people trying to see what they have never seen before.
That is what travelling is all about, and that is why tourist traps are so prevalent.
People want to see something.
When we got back we took our grandchildren to the science museum in St. Paul, and it was a mad house as multiplied hundreds of people pushed their way passed each other to see the man made dinosaurs.
People long to see the unique and the spectacular.
This is what motivates people to travel and go to new places.
In Glendale, California people were even flocking to Forest Lawn Cemetery to see the wonder of the Lord's Supper in living color, as well as a host of other examples of great art and sculpture.
Eyes are made for seeing, and man has a perpetual desire to see.
It is his adventure; his entertainment, and his education.
According to Bernard Shaw, seeing God's handiwork was of the very essence of life to Joan of Arc.
When her judges sentenced her to perpetual imprisonment she responds, "Send me to the stake rather than that.
To shut me from the light of the sky and the sight of fields and flowers; to chain my feet so that I can never again climb the hills-this is worse the furnace 7 times heated.
Without these things I cannot live; and by your wanting to take them from me, I know that your counsel is of the devil, and that mine if of God." Her conviction was that God wanted her to see His creation.
Seeing is the daily bread of the eyes.
God made the eyes, and He expects us to use them to see what He has made.
He even gives us glimpses into what we will see when we leave this world of wonders to enter the world of His presence and even greater wonders.
If prizes were given out for the greatest seer of unique and unusual things, the Apostle John would take first prize.
Paul was caught up into heaven also, but he does not tell us what he saw, but John does.
He was given the greatest vision of God's throne, and all that surrounds it, of any person who has ever lived.
He saw awesome things that makes all other visions trivial by comparison.
The thing that caught my attention about John's fabulous vision of heaven is that the key theme of Rev. 4 is the Creator and His creation.
In other words, John's trip to heaven was much like the trips we take on earth to see the handiwork of God.
He saw from the heavenly perspective, but the dominate theme of this chapter is the seeing of nature and its worship of God as its Creator.
This heavenly vision is amazingly worldly.
Look at the worldly symbols:
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The rainbow around the throne.
2. The glassy sea.
3. The four living creatures with faces of lion, ox, man, and eagle.
In almost sounds like John is in a celestial zoo.
The scene around God is so nature oriented, and the songs of 24 elders who represent all of God's people for all time is not a song about redemption, but about nature and God as the Creator of all things.
There is no escaping the primary message of this first vision of John.
God wants to be worshiped as Creator.
God is proud of His roll, and He has made the wonders of the world.
All that we see that amazes us is His doing, and He expects us to praise Him for His wisdom, power, and cleverness in making what He has made.
If God's will is done on earth as it is in heaven, then God's people will be a people who, like the saints in heaven, honor and glorify God as Creator.
A woman who has sewn or knitted, or crochet a thing of beauty is delighted when you acknowledge that it is worthy of praise.
People who make things of beauty enjoy their works being enjoyed by others.
That is what creativity is all about.
If you appreciate a work of art, you should let the creator of it know, for that is the joy of creating.
God feels the same as any artist or creator of beauty.
He wants to know if other minds can see and appreciate what He has done.
A major part of our worship is to honor Him, thank Him, and praise Him for the wonders of nature.
The Christian is to be a student of nature, for the reason that when it is known better, you know God better, and you will be in a state of worship.
The Christian has no quarrel with science, for it is but the study of that which God has made.
It has a quarrel, however, with that which leads men to worship the creation rather than the Creator, but there is no quarrel with science as such.
The songs of heaven are songs of praises for God's creativity.
If God made it then it is worthy of study, for all God has made will lead us to praise Him when we see His wisdom in it.
Psa.
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