Proverbs 25:2 says it’s “the glory of God to hide things, but the glory of kings to investigate them (or search them out).” So God set up his creation like a treasure map, with all sorts of things to be discovered, and he gave us the abilities to find them.
The sciences are the proof of it, because science is really just the discovery of all the things God inserted in his creation from the beginning, and scientists are the ones with the curiosity and the skills to search them out. God created the laboratory, and scientists are his lab technicians bringing his creation to light – to their glory as well as his.
It puts science on a hugely high pedestal, because if it wasn’t for men and women spending thousands of hours educating themselves on the intricacies and workings of the physical world, where would we be now? What if electricity had never been discovered, for instance? So the good parts of our history are very much the “glory” of those who set their minds to learn.
Like those who set their minds to learning about the human immune system, and how it operates when hit by viruses. Because they knew when the Covid virus hit what it would do, and what treatments would be effective against it. These were the true scientists who based everything on evidence, observation, proper testing, trial and error, consultation with peers, and consensus – and not rushing to any conclusions or treatments unless all those steps had been taken. That, as Proverbs 25:2 says, is the glory of kings, or experts in their field; it is to investigate, search, and experiment to tease out what God put into his creation for our benefit.
During the pandemic, then, we looked to our scientists to lead the way. Unfortunately, those with the purse strings and political agendas peddled a poorly based “science,” that has since proved to be disastrous for millions of trusting people. But it highlights a huge lesson, that those in power can easily pull the wool over our eyes if we aren’t educated.
It’s our glory to investigate and search things out, because that’s what God designed us to do, and there were hundreds of voices during the pandemic who were making predictions about the future of the virus and the effects of poor science in treating it – that have since proved to be extremely accurate. It is to their glory that they shared their expertise, despite censorship and loss of job, because they spared thousands of people from making uneducated decisions.
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