Today I walked down a single block in a very small town. On my right was a lovely landscaped retention pond with a fountain bursting forth from the center. Nearby a tall white heron stalked its dinner. On my left, in an even lovelier ditch -- lovelier for its wildness -- was a mini-woodpecker. I've never seen one on the ground before...taking a break from pecking. His Clorox-white feathers were startlingly clean, his brown feathers ruffling in the light breeze. Just feet from him, waddling in the tiniest puddle were three ducks, as alike as they were different. Each had its own pattern of brown and white, all distinguishable as separate and individual.
Hidden by his very stillness, a blue heron stood tall behind these diminutive ducks, thinking I could not see him. I am so glad I saw him -- and all of the rest of those creatures. They reminded me of my God's infinite creativeness, His perfection, and His power. "God is in the details." Why make so many different kinds of birds? Why not just one? And why not all the same color? Because He could. Because it is part of His nature. Because He could not make a world devoid of COLOR and full of care. He did not create ugly.
When you look in the mirror you can know that you also are a part of His masterpiece. You are unique and specially designed. God did not create anyone else who is exactly like you.
For the invisible things of Him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead...Romans 1:20a
"And God said, 'Let there be light,' and there was light." Genesis 1:3
I count ten times in the first chapter of Genesis that God said something and then something happened. That is the way He made light, Heaven, Earth, grass, trees, fruit, the sun, the moon and stars, living creatures of every kind to fill the air, the land and the sea. And finally, He created man in His own image. Just by saying, and it was so.
Psalm 33:6-9 says, "By the word of the LORD were the heavens made; and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth. He gathers the waters of the sea together as a heap: He lays up the depth in storehouses. Let all the earth fear the LORD: let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of Him. For He spoke, and it was done; He commanded, and it stood fast."
God's power is amazing. I have yet to look in the refrigerator and say, "Let there be dinner" and have dinner appear! Yet, God made the whole universe by His spoken Word.
In John 1:1-3, we find out that Jesus is that Word:
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by Him; and without Him was not any thing made that was made.
Selah (think about that).
