Without Him Nothing

John 1:3
"All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made."

Over time I find myself losing my grasp of the full weight of certain truths.

For example:
"God is good"
"For God so loved the world . . . "
 and "God made the world."

Yes, I know that God is good, but if I were to truly sit and try to comprehend how good He is or acknowledge the magnitude of His love - I would doubtless find myself overwhelmed with awe. I easily throw around the "God made the world" bit, but when I really stop and take in the words "without Him nothing was made that was made," I am forced to see how everything around me is a testament to His awesomeness.

God the Gardener

“The Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden, and there He put the man whom He had formed.”     Genesis 2:8

The bible doesn't say that God spoke a garden into existence, it says he planted a garden. He chose specific trees to grow there and the bible mentions rivers that ran through it. God put specific thought into this one place where he would place man.

It reminds me of the nesting instinct in a mother.

The image of . . .

“So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.”                                         Genesis 1:27

To an extent I think all artists desire their work to represent some aspect of themselves. The heavens, mountains, oceans, etc all declare the glory of God. When we look at them we see a new aspect of God. God made us in His image, just as we want our children to resemble us.

I find it very interesting that we also like to create things in our own image.

As a writer, I am daily faced with the truth that God made us to enjoy creating, just as he does. When I write, I try to draw from everything I know of God, his creation, and myself and try to create out of the best. My creation are at most poor representations of what He has already made.

Beneath Notice

God's foresight in creation was amazing. He didn't just make plants. He made plants that reproduced,
photosynthesized, take in CO2 and put off oxygen. Can you image a world where plants only took in oxygen? The detail that God put into His creation is astounding. Nothing is to small to be beneath His notice. Likewise, nothing in our lives escapes Him. God cares about the little things.

“Then God said, 'Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb that yields seed, and the fruit tree that yields fruit according to its kind, whose seed is in itself, on the earth', and it was so.”
                                                                                                                              Genesis 1:11