GOD’S GREATEST WORK
But God’s work is more than nature. He barely began there. People generally concede that you can know something about God through the universe he has made: “The heavens are telling the glory of God.” (Psalm 8:1) But to know someone through his work you ought to concentrate on the work he loves best. God does not love stars as he loves me. The heavens, for all their splendor, will outlive their usefulness; they will be rolled up and taken away. So will the world we live in, for all its sensual glory and intricate ecology. They are like the scaffolding that Michelangelo designed for painting the Sistine Chapel — marvelous in its own right, but dismantled at the proper time so that the great work could be more clearly seen. When God had created everything else, he went on to man and woman, creatures who sat up and talked to each other, who talked to him. He has been working…
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