A crew of CBS News anchors giddily surveying a rare blue diamond worth tens of millions of dollars caught my interest this morning. My coffee was cold and my day was off to a typical ADD start. Call this person, look for a hummingbird on my new feeder (none yet), wonder if I will get around to exercising, wonder if I can get Jonathan to hike with us this weekend. Look out window yet again. It was an aimless start. But not for God.
He is remarkably consistent at rolling up the night sky and tucking away the stars. He ceaselessly dispatches those ocean waves to shore. He sends the worms wiggling up to daylight so all of his beautiful birds can have a nice breakfast. He also, apparently, in all of his fascinating mystery, tucks blue diamonds here and there in the earth and then, because of his generous nature, allows people to dig them out. He showed us how to cut and polish them so that they, in the end, become something breathtaking, like the blue gemstone the woman from the South African mining company had on display this morning, reflecting light in a brilliant way from the velvety black background she held it on. She apparently knew her stuff. The woman gushed in an engaging South African accent, extolling the virtues of this rare blue diamond. I have to admit, I liked it. It was very, very pretty.
When people see things like that, I wonder, doesn't it take more work over the course of a thinking person's lifetime to NOT believe in a creator? Next question: how could one not fall deeply, madly in love with a being so outrageously creative, endlessly intelligent, crazily wise, Someone in whose hand is the turn of the seasons, the breath of all creation, the love between a mother and a child, the heart of a doe for her fawn. Someone who sets leaders of imperial nations on thrones, charts the course of history, diverts hurricanes, manages the storehouses of snow in the heavens (this is directly referenced in the Bible) and YET takes time to see each one of us, to communicate with us personally, to love us uniquely and individually and to reach out to us one by one????? I am all about my Father today! Make it my heart's cry every single day, Lord! You are SO EASY TO LOVE!!!!
He is remarkably consistent at rolling up the night sky and tucking away the stars. He ceaselessly dispatches those ocean waves to shore. He sends the worms wiggling up to daylight so all of his beautiful birds can have a nice breakfast. He also, apparently, in all of his fascinating mystery, tucks blue diamonds here and there in the earth and then, because of his generous nature, allows people to dig them out. He showed us how to cut and polish them so that they, in the end, become something breathtaking, like the blue gemstone the woman from the South African mining company had on display this morning, reflecting light in a brilliant way from the velvety black background she held it on. She apparently knew her stuff. The woman gushed in an engaging South African accent, extolling the virtues of this rare blue diamond. I have to admit, I liked it. It was very, very pretty.
When people see things like that, I wonder, doesn't it take more work over the course of a thinking person's lifetime to NOT believe in a creator? Next question: how could one not fall deeply, madly in love with a being so outrageously creative, endlessly intelligent, crazily wise, Someone in whose hand is the turn of the seasons, the breath of all creation, the love between a mother and a child, the heart of a doe for her fawn. Someone who sets leaders of imperial nations on thrones, charts the course of history, diverts hurricanes, manages the storehouses of snow in the heavens (this is directly referenced in the Bible) and YET takes time to see each one of us, to communicate with us personally, to love us uniquely and individually and to reach out to us one by one????? I am all about my Father today! Make it my heart's cry every single day, Lord! You are SO EASY TO LOVE!!!!
Amazing words for an amazing God!!
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