Blogging The Institutes: Day 30 1.14.19 - 1.14.22

As chapter 14 comes to a close so does Calvin's exhortation of the Creation and how we are to experience and learn about God in it. And as Calvin states, it was not be means of completion that he has decided to put a cap on this subject but only that if, "we were to attempt to go over the whole subject we should never come to a conclusion, there being as many miracles of divine power, as many striking evidences of wisdom and goodness, as there are classes of objects, no, as there are individual objects, great or small, throughout the universe!"

How loving is our God that, "he was pleased to display his providence and paternal care toward us in this, that before he formed man, he provided whatever he foresaw would be useful and salutary to him."

"To conclude, in one word (yea right!); as often as we call God the Creator of heaven and earth, let us remember that the distribution of all the things which he created are in his hand and power, but that we are his sons, whom he has undertaken to nourish and bring up in allegiance to him , that we may expect the substance of all good from him alone, and have full hope that he will never suffer us to being want of things necessary to salvation, as to leave us dependent on some other source; that in everything we desire we may address our prayers to him, and, in every benefit we receive, acknowledge his hand, and give him thanks; that thus allured by his great goodness and beneficence, we may study with our whole heart to love and serve him."