The Beauty of Creation

To me, there isn’t a much more beautiful time than when it’s night, the moon and stars are shining bright and it’s winter. If the night is still and the moon is bright enough, the snow shimmers exquisitely and I am in awe. Even though it’s cold, I could stay out all night just so I could capture the image in my memories forever. 

It’s nights like that that Psalm 19:1-4 truly come alive to me. 

 “The heavens declare the glory of God and the sky above proclaims his handiwork. Day to day pours our speech and night to night reveals knowledge. There is no speech, nor are there words whose voice is not heard. Their voice goes out through the ends of the worth and their words to the end of the world.”

In verse 3, (There is no speech, nor are there words whose voice is not heard) the KJV is actually a better translation- There is no speech nor language, where their voice is not heard. Everyone can see God’s glory, because He has revealed it to us through His creation. It doesn’t matter what tribe tongue or nation you come from; He has shown Himself to us through what He made. 

“For his invisible attributes, namely his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse.” Romans 1:20

I love this verse. Creation does truly reveal the power and nature of its Creator. How much power must He have to make everything that lives and exists in this universe? Try to wrap your head around that one for a second. I know I can’t quite figure that one out. 

And His nature. Wow. First of all, it shows how creative God is. Look at a rainbow. So many colors blended into a curve across the color. Look at the stars. There are millions of stars and He created every one and put it into its own specific place. Look at the natural phenomena that happen. The wonder of an eclipse, or the Aurora Borealis’ beauty. The God that made all of this is infinitely creative. 

It shows His love as well. Look at everything He has provided for us. He gives us food to eat in the form of both infinite numbers of plants and animals. He has given us nature to enjoy in all its forms and the four seasons, each one holding a different joy for us. He has given us water to drink and plants that can be made into medicines for the sick. He has given us to each other to build relationships with, to have families and friends to care for us and to take care of each other. He has such love for us that He provided literally everything we need to live, and given us gifts for our enjoyment. 

Every human being can see all of this. We can all see the beauty of the worlds that God created to point to Him and Him alone. There are such clear designs in the world and the universe. How could they have come about by chance alone? The blindness of the world befuddles me as I see everything that God has made.

And out of all this creation God chose to put the human race as His chosen vessels to proclaim His glory. I just can’t get my mind around that. Out of all the beauty He made, God chose to love the broken most of all. We are a broken race, and not just that, we are the race that cursed the rest of His creation. 

Adam and Eve were commanded not to do just one thing. They could do anything they wanted except eat from a single tree. 

“She took some of its fruit and ate and she also gave some to her husband who was with her and he ate.” Genesis 3:6b

They disobeyed the one command and thrust the whole creation into the shadow of it that it has turned into. You would think after that, God would have turned His favor to something else. But He created us, knowing this would happen. He magnified His glory in the world by giving us a Savior to rescue us from our sin if we would accept and follow Him. 

It’s so amazing that the almighty, infinite, all-knowing Creator of the world would choose to make us in His image, even though He knew we would fall. He gave us the free will to turn away if we chose to, and the freedom to come to Him and love Him. It’s because of His love that He did this and continues to hold us in the palm of His hand.

I don’t know about you all, but I know that meditating on this makes me more and more grateful for everything God has done for me and for all of His creation.