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Beginning of the End - Ellen G. White

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never answer. There is much among the common things of everyday

life that human minds with all their boasted wisdom can never fully

understand.

Yet scientists think they can comprehend the wisdom of God.

The idea is widespread that He is restricted by His own laws. People

either deny or ignore His existence or think to explain everything,

even the operation of His Spirit on the human heart; and they no

longer reverence His name.

Many teach that nature operates in harmony with fixed laws

with which God Himself cannot interfere. This is false science.

Nature is the servant of her Creator. God does not set aside His laws

but is continually using them as His instruments. In nature there is

the continual working of the Father and the Son. Christ says, "My

Father has been working until now, and I have been working" (John

5:17).

Regarding this world, God's work of creation is completed.

"The works were finished from the foundation of the world"

(Hebrews 4:3). But His energy is still exerted in upholding the

objects of His creation. Every breath, every beat of the heart, is an

evidence of the universal care of Him in whom "we live and move

and have our being" (Acts 17:28). The hand of God guides the

planets and keeps them in position. He "brings out their host by

number; He calls them all by name, by the greatness of His might

and the strength of His power, not one is missing" (Isaiah 40:26).

Through His power plants and greenery flourish, leaves appear, and

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