“Taking Pious Delight in the Works of God.”

P1010232"Let us not be ashamed to take pious delight in the works of God open and manifest in this most beautiful theatre…
 
There is no doubt that the Lord would have us uninterruptedly occupied in this holy meditation, that, while we contemplate in all creatures, as in mirrors, these immense riches of his wisdom, justice, goodness and power, we should not merely run over them cursorily, and so to speak, with a fleeting glance, but we should ponder them at length."
 
John Calvin, Institutes, Book I, xiv, 179-180.
 
Often enough we are guilty of that word 'cursorily'.

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