A nerd thinks about the Lord

I fancied that the Lord worked on miniatures of all his creations.  He tested them and made sure all the flagella would work properly, and the tendons and nerves would go through the foramen and fissures.  In my mind He did this just for fun, because His prototype was "very good" (Genesis 1:31).

AW Tozer believes He spoke it all into being.  So His canvas was in His great mind.  His models created at the speed of thought - God's thoughts.  When He said, "Let us make men in our own image," (Genesis 1:26) in the time it took to think it He had fashioned the nervous system that we are still trying to figure out.  He had worked out how potassium would move in and out of the cells, how ATP would be made, what elements would be in the human form, the immune system, the simple wonder of DNA, metabolic pathways, eye sight, and speech - astounding, don't you think?  

It gets better, He only said it once: "Let there be lights in the sky to separate day from night," (Genesis 1:14) and there were the sun, moon and stars.  Each with their individual properties, their life spans, their secrets and mystique. Whereas lesser gods speak again and again to keep things moving, the Almighty spoke once and when next He speaks to the lights in the sky again it is to blot out the sun, cast the stars to the earth and roll up the sky like a scroll (Revelation 6:12-14).  He only speaks to change it, because the Word He spoke initially is so mighty, so eternal.  

So He said, "The LORD is a compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger and rich in love and truth, maintaining faithful love to a thousand generations, forgiving wrongdoing, rebellion and sin" (Exodus 4: 6-7).  He said, "[I have] plans for your welfare, not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope" (Jeremiah 29: 11). Know that He who said this is faithful, He is Truth and He is Love, and He knows that we are weak and wretched.  That we are dust, doomed to fail.  But He said it all (and more) anyway.  Whenever you doubt Him, when fear overtakes you, think on these things and as long as the sun rises, the moon and stars shine, as long as day gives way to night, be encouraged - His Word is still in effect.  And so is His love for us.