This picture reminds of the song: “He's got the whole world in his hands”. I found a nice version on the net; below please find the link. I hope you like it!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNrpun-SOPo
The above led me to think about God and the creation of all things. Naturally, I started at the beginning. The Bible says...
Genesis 1 ( World English Bible )
1 In the
beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
2 Now the earth
was formless and empty. Darkness was on the surface of the deep.
God’s Spirit was hovering over the surface of the waters.
3
God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.
4 God
saw the light, and saw that it was good. God divided the light from
the darkness.
5 God called the light “day,” and the darkness
he called “night.” There was evening and there was morning, one
day.
6 God said, “Let there be an expanse in the middle of
the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.”
7
God made the expanse, and divided the waters which were under the
expanse from the waters which were above the expanse; and it was
so.
8 God called the expanse “sky.” There was evening and
there was morning, a second day.
9 God said, “Let the waters
under the sky be gathered together to one place, and let the dry land
appear;” and it was so.
10 God called the dry land “earth,”
and the gathering together of the waters he called “seas.” God
saw that it was good.
11 God said, “Let the earth yield grass,
herbs yielding seed, and fruit trees bearing fruit after their kind,
with its seed in it, on the earth;” and it was so.
12 The
earth yielded grass, herbs yielding seed after their kind, and trees
bearing fruit, with its seed in it, after their kind; and God saw
that it was good.
13 There was evening and there was morning, a
third day.
14 God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse
of sky to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs,
and for seasons, and for days and years;
15 and let them be for
lights in the expanse of sky to give light on the earth;” and it
was so.
16 God made the two great lights: the greater light to
rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night. He also made
the stars.
17 God set them in the expanse of sky to give light
to the earth,
18 and to rule over the day and over the night,
and to divide the light from the darkness. God saw that it was
good.
19 There was evening and there was morning, a fourth day.
20 God said, “Let the waters swarm with swarms of living
creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of
sky.”
21 God created the large sea creatures, and every living
creature that moves, with which the waters swarmed, after their kind,
and every winged bird after its kind. God saw that it was good.
22
God blessed them, saying, “Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the
waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth.”
23
There was evening and there was morning, a fifth day.
24 God
said, “Let the earth produce living creatures after their kind,
livestock, creeping things, and animals of the earth after their
kind;” and it was so.
25 God made the animals of the earth
after their kind, and the livestock after their kind, and everything
that creeps on the ground after its kind. God saw that it was good.
26 God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our
likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and
over the birds of the sky, and over the livestock, and over all the
earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”
27
God created man in his own image. In God’s image he created him;
male and female he created them.
28 God blessed them. God said
to them, “Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it.
Have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the sky,
and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”
29 God
said, “Behold, I have given you every herb yielding seed, which is
on the surface of all the earth, and every tree, which bears fruit
yielding seed. It will be your food.
30 To every animal of the
earth, and to every bird of the sky, and to everything that creeps on
the earth, in which there is life, I have given every green herb for
food;” and it was so.
31 God saw everything that he had made,
and, behold, it was very good. There was evening and there was
morning, a sixth day.
This is a chapter of the Bible that most people have either heard of or know or have studied. However, I have a few thoughts I would like to share with you for your reflection:
There is a creator.
Everything that you can perceive with your senses ( and more ) is created by him.
Everything that He made is very good.
There is a pattern that he made in his creation.
God made it in HIS own time and HIS own way, according to HIS desire.
Human beings are the pinnacle and stewards of God’s creation. We are not the product of the theory of evolution. We are special in this world and are caretakers of all creatures, by God’s decree.
If God decides that tomorrow he will destroy any or all of his creation- it is HIS right to do so.
Because God created everything; HE is therefore in everything.
These are but a few thoughts, but even considering one of them is worthwhile and time well spent. The more that I consider the nature and actions of God, the more I begin to grow as both a person and as a follower of Jesus ( a Christian ). It is my prayer that you will too!
