Creation Declares His Handiwork
CREATION DECLARES HIS HANDIWORK
It was such a spring day as breathes into a man an ineffable yearning, a painful sweetness, a longing that makes him stand motionless, looking at the leaves or grass, and fling out his arms to embrace he knows not what.
John Galsworthy
There is nothing that displays the bounties of nature better than the spring of the year. Buds spring forth from the earth as winter gives way to warmth. A flurry of insects emerge from their winter places. Flowers bloom, fields grow green, and the earth is a brilliant display of color. And the forests and the meadows become a nursery for all the newborn deer, chipmunks, squirrels, rabbits, and birds, to name a few.
One particular spring many years ago, I was housecleaning when I heard our Dalmatian barking in the back yard. Alex was not known to bark a lot, so it got my attention. What in the world would she be barking at? I quickly went outside to find her standing near a low lying tree barking at the ground. Fearing it might be a snake, I crept up as close as I could to see, and saw only a patch of straw on the ground. I shewed the dog away to get a closer look. As I slowly moved the bits of grass and straw, I could see tiny little gray bodies in the hole, newborn something, eyes closed, no hair. What they were, I did not know. I counted five of them.
I placed a chair over the hole so the dog could not get to them. Then I went about my research to find out what they were. My research led me to the conclusion they were baby rabbits. I read that mother bunnies, beginning in the spring, dig holes in discreet places and give birth to their young in the hole. She covers the hole to hide them from predators. She comes back in the early morning and late evening, stands over the hole, and nurses the babies. Day after day, the babies grow bigger and bigger. I kept a close watch in the mornings and evenings to watch for the mother, and often saw her standing over the hole nursing the babies.
One day, I went out to look at them and they had grown so much, their little heads were almost out of the hole. And the hole was beginning to be way too tiny for the young bunnies. After a short while, I went out to see one day and the bunnies were gone. The mother had taken them off somewhere.
God’s creation is absolutely amazing to watch. No one had to teach the mother what to do. She instinctively knew what to do. The babies never attempted to climb out of the hole where predators could get them. The mother knew the safest times of the day to feed her babies. God’s design is perfect in every way.
Job 12: 7-10 says 7 “But ask the animals, and they will teach you, or the birds in the sky, and they will tell you; 8 or speak to the earth, and it will teach you, or let the fish in the sea inform you. 9 Which of all these does not know that the hand of the LORD has done this?
10 In his hand is the life of every creature and the breath of all mankind.
I challenge you this month to take the time to learn something new about God’s perfect creation. Go outside, observe, take a nature walk. Get out of your head and look at what is around you. The whole world testifies to the existence of an Almighty Creator. And there is no better time to do it than in the spring.
Psalm 104: 24-25: O Lord, what a variety of things you have made! In wisdom, you have made them all. The earth is full of your creatures. Here is the ocean, vast and wide, teeming with life of every kind, both large and small.
