When Calvin sees the “pious laden with afflictions” and how
the “wicked flourish” he believes that these point to God’s judgment on all
future sin. He seems to believe that
these situations arise because “God’s powers are represented as a
painting”. Do you look at the minutiae
of creation rather than seeking the purpose of the whole? Scholars have viewed the account in Genesis
as a whole with its chiastic structure and symmetry yet so readily critics
malign the account thinking that it is a manual of how creation took
place. So it seems that Calvin is
encouraging us to look at the whole created order and then to recall the ways
in which we see God working in our lives.
He cites David in Psalm 92:5-6 in saying that unbelievers often do not
see “the designs of God in the governance of mankind” nor in the work of
creation. How easy or difficult do you
find it to see God at work in human institutions?
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