GOD CREATED A GOOD CREATION

Acts 14:16 says, "God let all the different nations go their own way.  But even then He didn't leave them without a clue, for He made a good creation."

These word were spoken by Paul or Barnabas in Lystra where they had healed a crippled man.  The people there went wild, thinking the disciples were gods and got up a parade to honor them.  But Paul and Barnabas stopped them and told them they represented the One God. That interested the Lyconians and they listened.

Me, too.  I represent the One God who made me, and I do my best to listen.  God made all of us out there over the centuries, those listening or not.

As I wasn't raised in the church, my "church" was the environment in which I lived.  It is true that we had no formal worship such as we have now.  But we did have the world as God created it!  I learned that God brought us beauty in the stars of the sky and the sun on the river, sparkling in a heavenly way.  Sunsets and rising sun--both were (and are still) beautiful and of God.  The smile on my mother's face and my dad's laugh, both endeared me to them in gratitude and love, just like the God who created us.  New babies or puppies, begged for kittens, all God-created.  A home where love was taught--God created.  Being punished for wrong-doing-God created.  All of these things are lovely and Godly.

I learned about God, even if I didn't learn about church.  But, sadly, I didn't learn the most important thing that was God-created--His Son, God's very own Son. I didn't learn that Christ died for my sins, my basic human wrongness.  But I know it now.  He died for me--My Savior!

I thank my family for teaching me what they knew about God.  And I thank my church for teaching me about Jesus.  More than a baby born in Bethlehem, He is my Savior and the Savior of the World.  Which, before we forget, World, was God-Created!!

Happy Day!  Jo