Little Monsters

Romans 1:20 -- "For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities - His eternal power and divine nature - have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse."

 

Fresh, cool, green St. Augustine grass mushed under our toes as we approached the pond in the back yard. A wonderful Spring Florida sunshine beat down on the tops of our heads and the ducks began to approach us in search of the bread we normally tossed out to them. Alas, we were not here for bread crumbs. Tyler had an experiment to perform and stretched his arm out over the water with his dropper and microscope slide at the ready. I was kind of excited. I was sure there would be something on the slide when we put it under his microscope - I had no idea what to expect.

Once our eyes adjusted from the brightness outside, Tyler prepped his slide and slid it gingerly under the "arms" of the microscope [graciously sold to us from a friend in the lab at the University of North Florida.] Tyler's face lit up immediately. The single droplet of water was ripe with tiny little monsters. It was absolutely crazy with all manner of micro-organisms! For once, Tyler didn't have to be reminded to study or to do his homework. He anxiously took up pencil and paper and began to identify the squirming little life forms on the slide. [He would be tested on it later].

Truly breathtaking, there was an entire world wiggling around on the tiny glass slide at Tyler's fingertips. He looked up at me and said "God is so amazing! How can people see this and NOT know there IS God?"

Good question!

The plain and simple truth is - they can't. I mean, they might try to explain things away from a "scientific" view point, but in my way of thinking - they only end up with a deeper and more detailed description of the power and creativity of God, our Creator! It seems to me that one would have to really, really try very hard to leave our Father OUT of creation equation! It seems so obvious that His handiwork is everywhere!

Paul apparently agreed as he said in Romans 1:20 that man has no excuse when he chooses to ignore God's presence in our Universe. There can be NO denying that the evidence of our Creator is all around us!

Men are without excuse in this regard!

I could not help but smile and thank the Lord that allowed Tyler to see Him in a tiny little drop of water. What a precious gift! What an amazing Father we have! What an amazing Savior we serve!