Can You Imagine?

  Can you imagine God's joy?

  Just think--God is infinite and infinitely complete.  God lacks nothing, has a perfect relationship in the Trinity, Father, Son & Holy Spirit, forever loving, forever complete.

  And yet, at one point, with utter joy and total generous freedom, God decided to create the earth, and to fill it with wondrous creations.

  Can you imagine God's joy at seeing the earth take shape?

  Can you hear God's voice--Let's put blue feathers on that parrot!  Let's create a mighty oak from that tiny seed!  Let's cap that mountain with clouds, and dust the landscape with flowers of every shade!!  We can place white sand on this beach, and pink sand over here!  What fun! 


From Job 39-40:
  "Do you give the horse its might?  Do you clothe its neck with mane?"
  "Is it by your wisdom the hawk soars, and spreads its wings toward the south."
  "Look at Behemoth, which I made just as I made you; it eats grass like an ox.  Its strength is in its loins, and its power in the muscles of its belly."


  And then God creates human, male and female, not because God has to, but because God wants to.  And despite all the sins we have, do and will commit, God continues to love us, to love us, out of infinite grace and love.

  Do you see yourself as fearfully and wonderfully made?  Do you imagine the joy God has in creating and loving you?

  Or have we lost our sense of wonder?