If we're not working at this every day, why not?

By thinking his thoughts and earnestly resolving to live godly lives, we are called children of God who is over all. And when we conform our mind to his will, so far as we are able, we are truly like God and indeed truly God's offspring.

  - Cyril of Alexandria, Comment on John 8:37

For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD as the waters cover the sea.

  - Habakkuk 2:14

There can be little doubt concerning the will of God: God intends to be glorified, to make His presence and power clearly known throughout the world.

He's already working full-time to achieve this. The heavens and all creatures declare the glory of God and cause His deity and other attributes to be clearly revealed (Ps. 19:1-4; Rom. 1:18-20). But it's one thing for God to reveal His glory, it's quite another thing for human beings, not accustomed to acknowledging the Lord, much less giving Him thanks, to know that glory for what it is.

What to do?

This is where we come in. We have the mind of Christ (1 Cor. 2:16). We are indwelled by the Spirit of God and can read and understand His holy Word, where His good and perfect will is plainly revealed. We can discern the glory of God everywhere it is being revealed. Of course, we'll have to work a bit in order to be able to trace the outlines of God's hidden presence, but, hey, that's our job (Prov. 25:2).

What then? Well, having discerned the glory of job, we must make it known. We must explain to people how the creation manifests the attributes - wisdom, goodness, splendor, majesty, power, economy - of the God whose mind we possess. We must not be reticent in describing what we see, for, as His children, the disciples of His Son, we are commanded to glorify Him in everything, even the most everyday matter (1 Cor. 10:31).

All the cosmos is a museum of divine wonders. The glory of God flickers within the farthest star and startles from the face of most helpless infant (Ps. 8:1, 2). In the museum of glory which is the creation, wonders truly never cease.

And all the people we see each day - even those we work with in the lab or the office, the ones we teach or from whom we learn, all of them - are visitors to the museum of God's glory. But most of them don't have a clue about what they're seeing.

We are the docents of glory, called and equipped of God for showing His beauty, goodness, and truth to the world in the things He has made. Those of us who work in the sciences should be especially adept at this, given that our task is to study the intricacies of the creation in such wondrous detail.

But every believer has the duty to engage his mind with the mind of God and to obey God's will in making His glory known to the world.

So if we're not working at this every day, why not?

A visit to our website is sure to provide some insight or instruction to help you fulfill this high and holy calling. We look forward to welcoming you there.

T. M. Moore

Senior Theologian and Historian