Creation

Earlier this week the warm weather enticed me to leave my office for a quick stroll around the pond next to our church building. It was marvelous to walk outside without a coat weighing me down, allowing my skin to soak up the warm life-giving sunshine. I marveled at all the things the snow had hidden from sight over the past several weeks. Grass, trees, shrubs, even the fish that had been held captive under thick layers of ice were now bursting forth in anticipation of the changing seasons.

My quick trip outside in the spring-like air reminded me of the psalmist’s words in Psalm 102:25, “In the beginning you laid the foundations of the earth, and the heavens are the work of your hands.” He proclaims that all we see in this amazing world is the work of God’s hands. From the top of the mountains to the depth of the sea, all that we marvel at and enjoy in creation is the “work of his hands.”

The great King David would later proclaim in Psalm 139 that it was with the same wisdom and power that God created each human and “knit us together in our mother’s womb.” The prophet Isaiah proclaimed that “we are the clay” and God is the potter, which means we are the work of His hands!

The next time you feel the urge to take a stroll outside and marvel at the amazing creation, look no further than your own life. God created you, knit you together in your mother’s womb, and loves you enough to send His one and only Son to pay the penalty for your sin (John 3:16).