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In Genesis 1:1 we read: “In the beginning God made the heavens and the earth.” In the verses following we are told that He made light, water, grass, seed, fruit trees, etc. The Bible does not say what He made these things out of. Later we are told He made man from dust, but who made the dust? This is where He has an advantage over our modern scientists. God can not only make an earth and an entire universe — He can produce the material that each item is made. Our scientists couldn’t make a rubber ball, if they had to create rubber from nothing!
Whether God made all the ingredients first, or created them as He went along we are not told. One thing we can be sure of, God didn’t have an experiment first, or spend a period of time in research: He knew what He wanted and without even a blueprint, He spoke the worlds into existence (Genesis 1:9, 10).
THE GREAT PLANNER
Have you ever thought about how well God has designed the universe? The pulls balance the pushes. If certain elements were missing, the earth would be a desert.
Without lime, there would be no bones; without oxygen, no air or water; without nitrogen no life. If there were too much of any of these, or if some of the poisonous ones were not made harmless by locking them together, the universe would choke us, burn us, freeze us, poison us, or burn us up.
There are vast quantities of chlorine and sodium on the earth, one destructive to life, the other a poison. God made them fond of each other and locked them together as salt, without which the earth would be uninhabitable. Then he buried most of it.
Oxygen makes fire burn. Hydrogen is explosive. Together, as water, they put fire out. Nitrogen makes air, combined with oxygen, but when fixed in other elements, it becomes food, fertilizer, medicine, or explosives.
What a wonder-working God is ours!
--Author Unknown
In Morning Glory
God had it all planned out before He created such a commonplace thing as an egg. Did you ever hatch eggs in an incubator? It is a simple device. You don’t have to be a farmer, just put the eggs in the place provided, turn it on and wait three weeks for the chicks to hatch. The first little chick picks its way out of its prison cell, the shell cracks open and out hops a baby chick — not a sparrow, or an ostrich — a baby chick.
I don’t know how many different kinds of eggs there are in this world, but every one in the world of nature produces a robin, a duck or crow just like its parents. God never makes a mistake! We can safely learn from everything in nature, but that does not mean we should worship nature, as some have since the beginning of time:
“Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful: but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened . . .Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creature, who is blessed forever. Amen (Romans 1:21, 25).
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I AM A LOVER OF NATURE
By Charlie Grier
I am a lover of nature.
I love each gentle breeze.
I love each leaf on my crabapple tree,
But I do not worship the trees.
I love to watch the robins!
I love to hear them sing!
They are last to leave in the fall,
And first to return in spring.
I love blackbirds and the jays,
The humming birds and the wren;
Its always a thrill when the martins
Come back to their house again!
I wish I could sing like the Nightingale—
And those are not empty words!
I worship the God who created them—
I do not worship the birds.
I love my pretty tulips,
That come up every year,
To cheer my heart and let me know
That spring, at last, is here!
I know that God loves beauty,
That’s why He made the flowers;
He put them here that they might cheer
And gladden lonely hours.
I love the God of nature!
He has so many ways
To comfort me in sorrow
And brighten all my days.
God uses you, my precious friend.
You have been kind and true.
I Praise the Lord for sending you—
But I cannot worship you.
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