ALL GOD'S UNIVERSE

 ALL GOD'S UNIVERSE

 

Around the Year with Emmet Fox

 

June 27

 

What is nature?

What we call nature

 is a small part of God's universe

that we are able to see at the present time,

and much of which we see awry.

All the wonderful things

that are going on in the woods,

all the marvelous happenings

that take place in the depths of the ocean,

the whole sublime story of the heavens,

are all parts of God's self-expression.

Above all, our own bodies themselves

are part of nature,

perhaps the most wonderful part of all;

and probably the part

about which we ourselves know least.

"But ask now the beasts,

and they shall teach thee;

and the fowls of the air,

 and they shall tell thee:

Or speak to the earth,

 and it shall teach thee:

and the fishes of the sea

 shall declare unto thee.

Who knoweth not in all these

that the hand of the Lord

hath wrought this?

In whose hand

is the soul of every living thing

and the breath of all mankind. . . .

With him is wisdom and strength,

he hath counsel and understanding"

Job 12:7-10, 13