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<h1>The Blessings of Creation</h1> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Several years ago, an agricultural scientist was looking for a way to exterminate the destructive horn beetle without destroying other important insects. The horn beetle has long antennas that he uses for navigation. The scientist was scraping one of these antennas when he discovered the secret of its unique sense of direction. It had built in radar that acted as a receiver. He wrote an article in a popular agricultural magazine describing this fantastic radar guidance system. He went into great detail and gave specifics about his marvelous discovery that was a breakthrough in known scientific circles.</span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"> </p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">A few days later, the FBI arrested him and questioned him for several days. They wanted to know how he got the information about the new radar guidance system. It took him some serious talking to convince them that he had acquired his information from the dreaded horn beetle.</span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"> </p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">It turned out that the radar guidance system that he had discovered was a new, state of the art, guidance system that NASA had begun to use in space travel. The 'secrets' were kept under lock and key, and only a limited number of people knew of its existence. Everyone involved in the project had the highest security clearance. The FBI couldn't believe that a mere agriculture scientist could possibly know of its existence and the intricate details of its operation.</span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span> </span></span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Some scientists believe that the horn beetle has been around for three million years and makes up one forth of the animal population on earth at any one time. NASA stumbled onto the radar guidance system that God had placed in this insect so long ago. </span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"> </p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Many of man's wonderful 'creations' are like this simple horn beetle. We think we're so brilliant and yet all we really do is uncover God's marvelous design that is already functioning in the universe.</span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"> </p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Have you ever wondered how a salmon finds its way back home to spawn? After it hatches, it travels sometimes thousands of miles to the ocean and lives there for four to six years. Then, swimming upstream, it returns to the same river or stream where it was born to lay eggs and reproduce. It does this through its refined sense of smell.</span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"> </p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Most things in nature have an even number of rows or lines. Corn always has an even number of rows on each ear. Watermelon has an even number of stripes and so does cantaloupe. It's impossible to understand how people can see God's design in the world and not believe in the Creator who put so much detail into it. </span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"> </p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">I heard Paul Selah once say that to believe in the 'Big Bang Theory' makes about as much sense as believing that an explosion in a printing plant resulted in the creation of the Webster's Dictionary.</span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"> </p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">God often used nature to get our attention. I have a pastor friend who was staying at a hotel in Alaska during the winter. He was going through a devastating experience in his life and was questioning his relationship with God and even his calling to the ministry. During a difficult moment, he went out to walking in the icy snow surrounding the hotel and wound up on a park bench next door. Of course, there was nothing green anywhere around him and the cold weather didn't help his mood any.</span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"> </p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">He closed his eyes and cried out to God in his pain. When he opened them, he noticed a single blue flower that had bloomed near the edge of the bench he was sitting on. He didn't know how long it had been there, but it was beautiful, the only living thing in all that ice. He told us that God had placed it there just for him.</span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"> </p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">God has a way of doing that. A bird singing, a single cloud the size of a fist, the smell of a new born baby, or a flower growing through ice and snow in Alaska can get our attention and reach our hearts wherever we are. With our busy schedules, we often forget to take time to appreciate the wonders of God's creation. </span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"> </p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">We all go through trying times and get discouraged at times. Or we get so busy doing His work that we forget Him in the process. God's sweet voice is easy to ignore or push aside when life's pressures push in on us. Sometimes we need to slow down, sit outside in a lawn chair, and breathe deeply as we contemplate the Creator who loves us so much, that He will use His own creation to bless and encourage us.</span></p> -- <b>About the Author</b> <p>Dr. Sharon Schuetz is an ordained minister and holds a BA in Religious Education and a Phd in Clinical Counseling Psychology. She and her husband, Michael, have been married for 33 years. They have three children and seven grandchildren. Like most writers, she has loved writing since she was a child.</p>
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