The Crowns of Creation and of Providence

…and on His head were many crowns… – Revelation 19:12

On His head is the crown of creation. “All things were made by Him; and without Him was not any thing made that was made.” His voice said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. It was His strength that piled the mountains, and His wisdom balances the clouds. He is Creator. If you lift your eye to the upper spheres, and behold yon starry worlds-He made them. They are not self-created. He struck them off like sparks from the anvil of His omnipotence; and there they glitter, upheld and supported by His might. He made the earth and all men that be upon it, the cattle on a thousand hills, and the birds that make glad the air. The sea is His, and He made it also. Leviathan He hath formed, and though that monster maketh the deep to be hoary, yet is he but a creature of His power. Together with this crown of creation there is yet another-the crown of providence, for He sustaineth all things by the word of His power. Everything must cease to be, if it were not for the continual out-going of His strength. The earth must die, the sun must grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, if Christ supplied it not with perpetual strength. He sends the howling blasts of winter; He, anon, restrains them and breathes the breath of spring; He ripens the fruits of summer, and He makes glad the autumn with His harvest. All things know His will. The heart of the great universe beats by His power; the very sea derives its tide from Him. Let Him once withdraw His hands, and the pillars of earth must tremble; the stars must fall like fig leaves from the tree, and all things must be quenched in the blackness of annihilation.~ C.H. Spurgeon

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4 thoughts on “The Crowns of Creation and of Providence

  1. But, O Lord, we worship with all our heart, and adore the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost; and Oh, most blessed Lamb of God, with all the saints before the throne, we pay you reverence—casting all that we have before you.

    Crowns we have none, not even of silver and gold, but only what you have graciously given, we would willingly lay at your feet, content to feel that everything is ours when it is yours, and the more ours, when we have yielded it up to you. We wish we could live for Jesus wholly, that there were no distractions, no secondary channels into which the stream of life could flow, but that as he is all to us, so all of us might be unto him alone.
    Amen.
    Charles Spurgeon
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