Who is God: Genesis 1.24-25

The sun rose on day six, greeted by the songs of countless birds, and God went to work. Life filled the sea and sky, but God still had plans to carry out on the land. God speaks again, and animals begin to cover the earth. Cows and ants, lions, tigers, and bears. Orangutans and squirrels, ducks, wolves, and beavers. The jungles, deserts, forests, and prairies were full of life, and it was good.

From the mouth of God comes wondrous variety. Look at how many different types of dogs their are, and the numerous species of insects, who knows how many have yet to be discovered, and how many we have destroyed without even realizing it. There are thousands of mammals, and nearly one million insects in the world, and these numbers don't include the undiscovered or the extinct species. It's estimated that more than five billion species, 99% of all the species that have ever lived, are now extinct. Think about that, the amazing variety of life on this earth (including plants, birds, and fish, as well as the animals created on day six), is only 1% of God's original creation.

God is far from boring, just start by looking at the animals He made, the ones I named at the end of the opening paragraph are some of my favorites, and four of those five just make me smile. These creatures, and the countless others, all came from the mind and mouth of God. He thought them up, then spoke them into existence. My girls love the zoo, we're their all the time, literally my membership is paid for in less than a month. But seeing these animals, how they work, the environments they survive in and how they are built to survive there, it amazes me. Each animal plays a vital role in its environment, the world is meant to function with variety, and when part of that variety is lost, the world doesn't function the way that it was intended to.

Each of us is unique, and each one of us is a vital part of the world. There are things that only you can do, thoughts that only you will have, and things you can say in a way that no one else can say it. Let us learn to embrace the variety, and let each of us be uniquely who we were created to be. That is the way God intended us to be.


Fight the lion, 1 Peter 5.1-11

TO GOD ALONE BE THE GLORY!