The Complexity of Creation – Sermons in motion
“When I consider the heavens, the work of Your fingers, the moon and the stars which You have ordained…” — Psalm 8:3
Have you ever just… stopped? I mean really stopped…not just to look at the sky, but to consider it? To take in the moon, the stars, the breeze brushing across your skin, the rustling of trees, the pattens of light through the clouds?
David did. And when he did, he was undone. He saw the fingerprint of God in everything above him, and it shifted his heart into a place of awe. “What is man,” he asked, “that You are mindful of him?” (Psalm 8:4).
Let me ask you: When was the last time you slowed down enough to really think about the creation around you? Not just pass by it, not just use it as background—but to consider it? The trees outside your window. The ants marching in perfect order on your driveway. The mountains standing tall, unmoved. Even the clouds that know when to gather and when to rain. These aren’t just natural phenomena. They are sermons in motion—preaching the precision, purpose, and peace of their Creator.
Psalm 19:1 says, “The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of His hands.”
The natural world is not striving. It’s not second-guessing. It’s not battling for identity.
It does what it was made to do, and it does so in peace. The flowers don’t bloom anxiously. The birds don’t fly in fear. The bee doesn’t ask, “Am I enough?” No…each creature simply rests in its God-given design. It trusts the One who made it.
Why is this important?
When we take the time to truly reflect on God’s creation, the everyday things we so often overlook, it unlocks two powerful revelations.
First, it helps us see that the simple, seemingly insignificant parts of creation are often the ones that speak the loudest about how rest was designed to function. The way a tree stands without striving… the way birds rise with the morning without worry… these are glimpses into the rhythm of rest God built into the world. They remind us that rest isn't something we earn, it's something we align with.
Second, considering creation leads us to fresh confidence in the One who made it all—and in the fact that He made us too. The fact that everything God created was made with intention, purpose and with intricate detail in its design…and that includes you!
Psalm 124:8 declares, “Our help is in the name of the Lord, who made heaven and earth.” And again, in Psalm 146:5–6, “Happy is he that has the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the Lord his God: which made heaven, and earth, the sea, and all that therein is; which keepeth truth for ever.”
Creation points us not just to a Creator, but to a Keeper—one who made all things and holds all things (…by Him all things consist - Colossians 1:17), including you, with perfect wisdom and unfailing love. When you understand that, your heart begins to settle. That’s where confidence is born. That’s where rest begins.
