Rebecca Brown Posts

Glimpses of God 1

2-22-16  Good morning everyone.  Once again God has demonstrated His absolute faithfulness in bringing up the sun at just the right time.

I want to start a series of lessons on some of the things God has shown me about Himself.  This has been the greatest desire of my life, to get to know God personally and to experience Him directly.  These experiences are my treasures in heaven.  I pray that some of my experiences will stimulate you to seek the Lord yourself.

GLIMPSES OF GOD -- PART 1
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From the very beginning, God created me with a great love for His creation, especially His animal kingdom.  He has chosen to show me some wonderful things about Himself through His creation.  After all, the Apostle Paul wrote:

"For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness, because what may be known of God is manifest in them, for God has shown it to them.  For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and God head, so that they are without excuse . . . "  Romans 18:20

The creation itself is a witness to us of the reality and character of God.  That's why the whole theory of evolution that is so strongly taught to our children in school is such blasphemy.  The theory of evolution seeks to disprove the existence of God, AND it tries to use the creation itself to show that there is no Creator!  If you are allowing your children to be taught the theory of evolution as a scientific truth, do not wonder why they rebel and walk away from God when they get older.  They have been thoroughly taught that God does not exist!

I firmly believe that anyone who does not have a real appreciation of the unspeakable beauties of God's creation has a very stunted view of God  Do you live in a big city?  Then make the time to get out of that city and walk in an uninhabited area and drink in the greatness of God through the creation.  Get away from the city lights at night and gaze up at the incredible panorama of countless stars in the sky.  Listen to the songs of the birds and insects and pause to consider the huge trees that have miraculously grown and stood through so many years and storms.  Look at the beauty of the flowers and butterflies that are made by God to flourish for such short periods of time.  Feel the solidness of the rocks that simply endure for year after year, unchanged by the swiftly changing fortunes of mankind all around them.  Look at the intricate and uncountable details of every thing in creation.  Cities are man made.  They are nothing compared to the greatness of God!

When God said, "Let us make man in Our image," He gave us the ability to create.  The rest of creation is a reflection of God's image, but humans are unique in their ability to create.  Oh, animals can build things, but they don't create.  They can think and reason and problem solve, and all of them have the ability to love, but they cannot create.  Only humans can do that.  However, there is one thing that humans CANNOT create, and that is LIFE.  No created creature can create life.  The great Creator has reserved that right for Himself.  That is why life is so precious.  All life flows from God Himself and must be continually sustained by Him.

The problem is that humans have become so centered on themselves, and what they can do, that they ignore or don't understand or think about just how intimately involved God is in the creation.  Even Christians tend not to appreciate or value the creation, they mostly think about what they can do or have done.  Our thinking tends to be that "God created the world and the universe and set it going, and now He is sort of just sitting back to see what will happen."  Wrong!  God is continually, intimately, involved in all of creation.  And not only this, but all of creation knows the Creator, except humans.  The Lord very clearly taught me this lesson years ago through a rather startling incident.

I will tell you of this experience next time.  God bless, may He open your eyes to the awesome beauty of His creation which reflects the great love and beauty of God Himself.  Rebecca