God's Creation

From my front porch I can watch a small pond where several different kinds of birds have gathered. We have seen Canadian geese, egrets, blue herons, and a couple whose identities I do not yet know.

From the back deck I view a wooded area where we have seen deer and turkeys, along with several songbirds that are now gathering around the feeders I put there.  Of course, a little beagle and Pomeranian do their best to keep me safe by barking and running after the squirrels. 

I read in the Scriptures, “The earth is the Lord’s, and the fullness thereof…” I am reminded that God is both the creator and the sustainer of all that is.  He made it, and according to His words in Genesis 1, He is pleased with it. More than once, having spoken something into existence, the Lord said, “Behold, it is good.”

  Later in Genesis God created Adam and Eve, and the words He spoke there astound us. When God looked at the first human beings He said, “Behold, it is very good.”  Notice that small word, “very.”

This is controversial to some today, but I am confident that it is true. Human beings are the crowning jewel of God’s creation.  We are of greater value to Him than the animals, the plants, the stars, or the planets.  Now, that does not give us license to spoil God’s creation. He gave us charge over it to care for it, to cultivate it, and to use its resources for our own good.

The value of human life is great. In fact, God loves us so much that He sent His Son to die for us.  I pray that we will look at each other and that we will learn to love as God does.  We are to love Him. We are to love each other.  God grant that it would be so.