{"id":155,"date":"2011-01-19T23:34:52","date_gmt":"2011-01-19T23:34:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sing2jesus.org\/?p=155"},"modified":"2011-01-19T23:38:48","modified_gmt":"2011-01-19T23:38:48","slug":"%e2%80%9call-creation-cries-glory-to-god-all-except-man%e2%80%9d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sing2jesus.org\/?p=155","title":{"rendered":"\u201cAll Creation Cries Glory to God! All, Except Man!\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>John Piper wrote, \u201cDo people go see the Grand Canyon to build self esteem?\u201d Is it an attempt to develop their pride, to increase their personal ambitions and agendas? The stars and vastness of the universe amazes us. The wonder of God\u2019s awesome and magnificent creation continually cries \u201cGlory to God in the Highest!\u201d We appreciate and enjoy His tangible splendor. However, I believe this is only scratching the surface of our inward desire to see Him, to know Him, and to love Him.<\/div>\n<p>He gives us air to breathe, light to see, food to eat, clothes to wear, but more importantly, time to live, and the choice to obey His commands. Scripture says that He does not withhold any of His goodness from us. \u00a0Yet, we withhold giving Him all our heart, mind, and soul to Him. This is a simple request for us to receive the goodness of God.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Laying down self is a daily battle &#8212; it is our cross to bear. In the midst of this confused and lost world we must realize that we are aliens. \u00a0It is not God\u2019s creation that alienates us. \u00a0It is the destructive choices throughout man\u2019s history that has corrupted the world. \u00a0Yet, when we look at the vastness and power of His mighty oceans, the purity of a clear, blue sky, the\u00a0grandeur\u00a0of the Grand Canyon, we get a glimpse of the pristine beauty that God had intended for us to enjoy and sing with.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Piper wrote, \u201cDo people go see the Grand Canyon to build self esteem?\u201d Is it an attempt to develop their pride, to increase their personal ambitions and agendas? The stars and vastness of the universe amazes us. The wonder of God\u2019s awesome and magnificent creation continually cries \u201cGlory to God in the Highest!\u201d We [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[19],"class_list":["post-155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-worship","tag-creation-corruption-goodness"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pfZYJd-2v","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sing2jesus.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sing2jesus.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sing2jesus.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sing2jesus.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sing2jesus.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=155"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sing2jesus.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":160,"href":"https:\/\/sing2jesus.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155\/revisions\/160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sing2jesus.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sing2jesus.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sing2jesus.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}