OK - this will be our last day for our first verse. Do you have it firmly embedded in your heart and in your mind? Have you pondered on it and has it again affected how you look at the images in your every day life? The night sky, the sunrise, the sound of the wind in the evening? When you hear a baby cry, when you wake in the morning and your body continues to function in the most miraculous of ways? Eyes that see, hands that move at your impulse, a nose that smells familiar fragrances that bring back wonderful memories.
No matter how you view the process of creation, is there no doubt in your mind Who started the process and Who guided it to completion?
Personally, I have no problem with the literal concept of a seven-day creation process. I mean God is God, right? God can do things that man would think would take a million years in the blink of an eye. I often think of the things that scientists find that they carbon date back to something like 12 billion years ago and think to myself, "Wouldn't it be funny if we find out that God created everything to look old, just as a test of faith?" Or maybe the process that God used to forge everything together is a process so totally out of man's realm of thinking that they don't get how it makes things appear aged---do we really think we can figure out just exactly how God put this whole universe together and does it really matter?
What does matter is that we don't ever override the fact that "God created" --- no chance occurrence, no random explosion of matter that caused life to appear from nothing. Our source of life is God and God alone. And when we have that firmly embedded in our hearts, then we can take the next steps of faith and trusting our lives to this most magnificent Creator of the universe.
Get ready for Week 2! We've had an easy one this week to get our brains in gear...so keep on track with me and we'll make progress together in this challenge that is set before us!
2 comments:
God is the master creator. I do feel his presence when I am outside more, and with newborn babies. What a miracle. This was an easy one, yet so powerful. I agree that God's power is out of man's realm of thinking. I am going to Red River this weekend. God seems closer when I'm in the mountains. I think that is why that so many retreats are set up in the mountains. I'm looking forward to tomorrow's verse.
Have a great time in Red River...I agree, God's majesty is just so apparent in the mountains and His presence just seems more easily felt. Thanks for being an encouragement to me! Enjoying hearing your thoughts!
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