Consider the Creator

Consider the most beautiful, most inspiring, most incredible work of art you have ever seen. It takes your breath away; it brings you to a new level of understanding; it awakens your mind to a new truth and inspires your heart to a new feeling. But, this piece of art, amazing as it is, is only a small expression of what the artist is capable of. Far more impressive than his work, is the artist himself.

Consider the artist. His mind is pulsing with the possibility of creation. Many ideas are remembered, many ideas are lost, and only a few translated into the physical. His mind is filled with interconnecting neurons releasing a ballet of neurotransmitters in a rhythm of perfection. The artist is capable of so much more than this mere work he has done. He, himself, is the greatest work of art – a living, breathing, unfinished canvas that was created to create, interact, grow, think, and feel. His body is a thousand entangled and harmonic systems. It is alive. It is impossible to grasp in its entirety. And still, even far more impressive than the artist, is his Creator.

Consider the creator: Almighty God. He resembles the artist in many ways – He made the artist to resemble Himself – and yet, the artist is only a small expression of what the creator is capable of. No one knows the thoughts of the creator, and no one could ever understand them. He is infinite knowledge, infinite love, infinite wisdom, and infinite possibility. He has no creator, but is the creator of all. All good that is done, is done by His grace: all beauty created, and every man. He is above comprehension because he is the creator of comprehension. He is everything that is beautiful, everything wonderful and everything good. He is the alpha and omega, the beginning and the end. He is infinite.

Consider the creation and then...

consider the Creator.

written by Britty Witty Mash Potato and Gravy

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Just in case anyone cares:

Some interesting facts about animals...

Official names for groups of:
Apes = shrewdness
Cheetah = coalition
Cockroaches = intrusion
Ferrets = business
Jellyfish = smack
Rhinoceroses = crash

Official names for babies of:
Cockroaches: nymph
Fish: fry or fingerling
Platypus: puggle
Hedgehog: piglet
Dove: squab

Official names for males/females of:
Cat: tomcat/QUEEN
Panda: boar/sow (are Panda's pigs? their babies are still cubs)
Opossum: jack/jill (now we know why the fell down after they got a pail of water and I don't feel so bad that jack's crown broke)
Kangaroo: buck, boomer/doe, flyer
Falcon: terzel/falcon (the female gets the name "falcon" which is rare in animals that it is used as the dominant)

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Surprised by Snow

I am saved
I am saved
Jesus bids me go free
He has bought
With a price
Even me! Even me!

Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah to my Savior
Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah
Amen.

A flurry of snow.
The first snow of the year fell this morning, and Christ spoke to my soul.
Snow. A reminder of sins washed. Of darkness lit. Of the rising of that which was dead. Christ died on the cross and rose from the grave. His blood cleansed me. I am saved. I am free. I cannot contain this. Tears. Laughter. Joy. Pure JOY!! This is what has overcome my heart. Love has penetrated my bone and marrow. Fears cease. Strivings cease. Love wins.

Children of God, brothers and sisters of an unconquerable, unshakeable, eternal kingdom, everyone who has ears to hear and eyes to see, LISTEN! This is truth: We are saved! Our sins have been atoned for, washed white. We are free.

We are the snow!

Live it.
May we stop dabbling in the stink of the death we once walked in. Throw your stinky grave clothes aside. May we stop wearing our chains like they are jewlery. Behold, they have been loosed, so cast them off!! Claim freedom. We are saved from our sins. Let us fall like snow now on a world in order that they may see and know the truth: that Christ died for their sins as well and rose that they may live life to its fullest!! Let us claim a freedom that is so liberating that it beckons us to cry out to those who are still chained, stinky, lost, blind, crippled, dead that they may know Christ and the grace of the cross and the power of His resurrection. May this freedom bring us to our knees and compel us to wail:

"Holy Holy Holy
Is the LORD God Almighty
The whole earth is filled with His glory"

as the angels dance before the Throne.

Salvation.
Freedom.

A flurry of snow.
A reminder of sins washed.

Ephesians 1:7-8
"In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of His grace which He lavished on us. In all wisdom and insight."

Love.
Love God. Love people. Love zoe.
Love.

America's Next Top Model

Beauty is intriguing.

It transcends thought. It causes us to think, to act, explore, even desire. This is because God transcends thought, causes us to change, act, explore, and is the reason desire exists! 

And God is the creator of beauty itself,
the dreamer of Eden,
the creator of Eve,
who was the completion of Eden,
the perfect expression of the beauty of God.

This beauty has been perverted by sin. Tainted. Hidden. Covered. Stolen. Exposed by the world as far less than it is. Pinned up in magazines. Polluted on the TV. Sickened on the Internet.

Hope.

Beauty will be revealed IN FULL once again. Christ will return. There will be a new Heaven and a new earth. The Eden dream has been preserved deep within creation. It is creation's longing to reveal it once again. And it does. And it will in all it's glory, at the return of Christ.

"Your Kingdom come,
Your will be done,
on Earth as it is in Heaven."

True beauty is revealed today. Purified. Uncovered. Redeemed. In daughters of Eve. It is the heart of all women, and the expression of those who choose Christ. It is deeper than face, form, and figure. It can not be made greater with fancy clothes or make-up. In fact, it washes away make up and wears out the finest linens, it reveals the heart of the creation of Eve, the beauty of God Himself. And that beauty dwells inside the girl next door, the girl that sits next to you in class. It is part of what is knit together by God in her mother's womb. Beauty.

BEAUTY!

Attention sons of Adam:
Do not settle for less
Do not settle for man-made beauty
Search for the beauty inside woman's soul

Daughters of Eve, allow Christ to reveal your heart, expose your beauty (to yourself), show you that you truly are the perfect beauty of God, and claim that beauty in your life. And you wonder why men desire you?

Deep down man desires the beauty of Christ more than anything. Women: do not let men desire less than the beauty of Christ within you. Do not accept cheap beauty. Allow your beauty to be Christ, and let Christ be enough. That is man's real desire.

That is why Prince Charming searches for Snow White,
why the slipper fits,
what Strider fights for,
what Noah Calhoun really waits for...

...the deep beauty of Christ that is expressed through the heart of woman.

Claim that beauty. Claim that search. And what will be revealed is Christ.

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