When a nation makes new laws, it has to have clear authority behind this. It goes to great lengths to ensure that this authority is in each new law. The government of a nation typically ensures that the new national laws are made by the authority of the name of its head of state. But what about Nature? What authority is in each new bud on a tree, each new leaf, each branch newly forming? What authority gives each new bud the right to grow? The Holy Spirit says to ‘Consider the trees. They put forth buds and leaves. They do so by the authority of the name of the Lord Jesus Christ.’ His name gives the authority for new buds to form, and even for planets to orbit stars. His name pervades Nature in this way.
