This week on our day off, most of my core group went to the Kansas City Zoo. Another group of interns went too, separately from us, and we bumped into each other and walk around and enjoyed the sights. It was a good time. The Kansas City Zoo is really big and pretty nice actually. I had heard good things, but it surpassed my expectations.
As we were waling around, several times throughout the day my mind was blown as I looked at and considered all the animals. The variety is astounding. The diversity of type, features, and sizes! WOW! That night there was a spectacular sunset and it got me thinking yet again about how God is the best painter/sculptor EVER! He's so creative. I've only ever been able to create from things I've previously seen, even if it's just been in my head. He created everything from nothing, literally, and no one told Him how to do it, or how to do it better. Even the "ugly" creatures are kinda beautiful when you consider that they were nothing until the Lord desired them to exist. The same God who created everything, made me (and you) and desires relationship with me (and you.) Once I get it, REALLY get it to the point that it's REALLY the reality that I look at the world through, I expect everything will change. Please Lord, in your mercy, let it be soon!
Psalm 139:13-16
For you created my inmost being;
you knit me together in my mother’s womb.
I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
your works are wonderful,
I know that full well.
My frame was not hidden from you
when I was made in the secret place,
when I was woven together in the depths of the earth.
Your eyes saw my unformed body;
all the days ordained for me were written in your book
before one of them came to be.
The trip to the zoo made me remember how i wanted to work with animals when I was younger and how I didn't purse that route,but i don't regret it. I still did appreciate going and experiencing it though. It made think that as a Christian, a zoo keeper would have very different motivations for their job then someone who just likes animals. A Christian would (and i think we should all probably pursue this to varying extents) would want to protect the animals specifically and as a species because they were created by God. protecting their numbers, educating the public, and caring for individual animals would be worshiping God and glorifying His work because it highlights and adds value to what He's done. An atheist who just likes animals wouldn't have a perspective that large. But also as a Christian, whatever I do, or job i have, I should be taking a similar approach, doing it to glorify God.
1 Corinthians 10:31
So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God.
