Evidences of God's Greatness

[Daily Devotional]

Evidences of God's Greatness 

     For thou, Lord, hast made me glad through thy work: I will triumph
in the works of thy hands. O Lord, how great are thy works! and thy
thoughts are very deep. Ps. 92:4, 5.  

     The scenery through which we passed [ELLEN WHITE IS HERE DESCRIBING
A CARRIAGE JOURNEY IN SWITZERLAND.] was altogether too majestic, too
awfully grand, to give anything like a description that can compare to
the scenery as it really is. The battlements of rocks--the timeworn
rocky walls that have stood since the Flood, washed with the  mountain
torrents--stand out smooth as if polished, while rocks  diverse from
these in shape are seen in regular layers, as if art had fashioned them.
Here . . . we viewed the most interesting, grand scenery that our eyes
ever looked upon. The rocks ascend higher and still higher from the
earth, and growing from these rocks are beautiful, dark-colored pines
intermingled with the lighter and most beautiful living green of the
maple and beech. . . . Such wild grandeur, such solemn scenery, carries
one back to the period when the waters rose to the highest points of
land, and the unbelieving antediluvians perished for their great
wickedness in the waters of the Flood.  

     As we look upon . . . the rocks of every conceivable shape, we say,
"How wonderful, O Lord, are thy works in all the earth." The softening,
subduing touches penciled by the great Master Artist in the beautiful
arrangement of dress of dark and living green, this beautiful
combination of colors to cover the rugged, time-seamed rocks! Then the
deep gorges, the noisy, fast-rushing streams, and the grand mountains
covered with forest trees in their beautiful summer robes!  

     The view is grand in the extreme, and presents to the senses such
high and holy and strong and sacred ideas of God our Maker. And then the
thought that we may call Him Father! . . . If anyone can look upon this
scenery without being impressed with the greatness and majesty of God,
his heart must indeed be unimpressible. I do so long for a closer
connection with God. This God of majesty and might may be our Father,
our Friend, our hope and crown of rejoicing.  

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