A can of worms to the God-reverencing, homeschooling family with a child who loves dinosaurs. So many different competing theories and emotionally charged accusations.
But what if it didn't have to be that way?
What if we could see with God's eyes?
What if the whole purpose of leaving fossils in the ground was to help us learn how to ask questions? A learning opportunity for His children to learn a little more about what He does?
A chance to look at the scraps of his creative process and figure out for ourselves how He did it?
God is a creator.
If God created all things, doesn't it make sense that it would all bear His maker's mark? That things would follow the patterns of His design preferences?
We are created in His image. The perfection of His creation. His masterpieces.
But more than that, we are His children.
This one fundamental truth changes everything: I am literally a Child of God. And He loves me. Say it to yourself every day and feel the truth of it work inside you.
And like every good parent, He wants us to become as He is. He doesn't intend for us to sit on a shelf and become dusty- He wants us to become as He is- to become Creators of wonderful things. And that means He invites us to learn about this workshop: Earth from Him and from our own experience.
This begins a short series of posts compiling my thoughts. I welcome your well-intentioned thoughts. I don't know everything, but God does.
Readings:
Isaiah 40:28 "Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the Lord, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? there is no searching of his understanding."
Mosiah 3:8 And he shall be called Jesus Christ, the Son of God, the Father of heaven and earth, the Creator of all things from the beginning; and his mother shall be called Mary.
Pearl of Great Price - two additional scriptural accounts of the creation and early years of the world.
You are Special by Max Lucado
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