The Creativity and Diversity of God

I'm amazed at this.  Looking up at the skies, seeing the stars, and knowing there is so much more out there. He created millions of galaxies, many of which have been discovered only in the past few years, thanks to the Hubble telescope.  They’ve been in the universe for thousands of years without humans even knowing about them. Why would God create more than 350,000,000,000 galaxies that generations of people never saw or even knew existed? Do you think maybe it was to make us say, “Wow, God is so unfathomably big?” Or perhaps God wanted us to see these pictures so that our response would be, “Who do I think I am?” 

A caterpillar has 228 separate and distinct muscles in its head.  The average elm tree has approximately 6 million leaves on it. Your own heart generates enough pressure as it pumps blood throughout your body that it could squirt blood up to 30 feet.  There are hundreds of different kinds of bananas.  There are 3,000 different species of trees within one square mile in the Amazon jungle. There are so many different kinds of laughter, different sounds of laughs: wheezes, snorts, silent, loud, obnoxious. Plants defy gravity by drawing water upward from the ground into their stems and veins.  This list could go on and on.  

Whatever God’s reasons for such diversity, creativity, and sophistication in the universe, on earth, and in our own bodies, the point of it is His glory. God’s art speaks of Himself, reflecting who He is and what He is like.

Psalm 19:1 The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of His hands.

We are called to worship Him.  His art, His handiwork, and His creation all echo the truth that He is glorious. There is no other like Him.   He is the King of Kings, the Beginning and the End, the One who was and is and is to come.  How do we respond to God’s magnitude, in a world that is bent on ignoring or merely tolerating Him?  God will not be tolerated.  He instructs us to worship and fear Him.  

(I got all of these notes from a book called Crazy Love, by Francis Chan)