Jason Silver

Thursday, June 14th, 2018

Creation Glory

When she was small, my daughter Rosie had a hamster. She initially named it "Angela Vanilla Peach," which somehow seemed to match the creature's big personality! Later on, Rose shortened the creature's name, but this in no way diminished the personality of her furry friend! That animal was the cutest little thing, often busy carrying her bedding from place to place, running through the transparent pipe maze, which we had connected to her cage.

These tunnels joined the different parts of her home together, which were soon assigned as a bedroom, kitchen, storeroom, and even bathroom! She was a real source of entertainment! We loved to watch her go about her day, with a purpose beyond my understanding.

I began to see her little experiences as a type of microcosm of this whole world. Her life was like a tiny example of what's happening over every square inch of this earth. From ants to aardvarks, or microscopic bacteria to great blue whales, life seems to be everywhere, and each life-form has a purpose to live, to store up for winter, to procreate, to eat, and maybe even other things that I could never guess.

Isn't it amazing? All of these life-forms glorify God in their complexity! Somehow there is pleasure in the mundane, in their mere existence!

So as I sing Psalm 104, I join in worship with the Psalmist: this is a beautiful world we live in! Bless the Lord, O my soul! Praise the Lord!

Amen