When cration speaks to us

Monday 23 August 2021

When creation speaks to us

It is in him (Jesus) that everything was created in heaven and on earth. Colossians 1:16

An old man, a serene face, illuminated with wrinkles, crowned with white hair. He tells us that he comes from a small isolated hamlet in the mountains. He grew up like a savage, learning to read and to count in the one-class school, knowing only his valley, his harsh winters, the cows we climbed to the pastures, the freedom of a long summer away of all.

And then, at the start of his adult life, he has to learn a trade. He will be a train driver, crossing plains and valleys, crossing towns and villages, along streams and lakes of his beautiful country : Switzerland. Over time, as you fill your eyes with such beautiful landscapes, something obvious fills her heart. Such a beautiful Creation cannot be conceived without a Creator! Doesn't so much beauty speak of the goodness and creative power of God ?

The old man says no more. From this thought, his journey towards God, then towards Christ, was simple and clear.

If you can't go to Switzerland or drive a train, France or Belgium, Africa or Peru are full of wonders that you can discover by car, bike, on foot... or as you wish. will please. One guide : look for traces of the Creator. They are many.

Sylvie Dugand

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Proposed reading : Psalm 19, verses 1 to 8.

19.1 To the choirmaster. Psalm of David.

19.2 The tells of the glory of God and the expanse reveals the work of his hands.

19.3 The day teaches another day the night gives knowledge of it to another night.

19.4 It is not a language, it is not words, we do not hear their sound.

19.5 Yet their voices travel all over the earth ; their words reach to the ends of the world, where he has pitched a tent for the sun.

19.6 And the sun, like a bridegroom coming out of his room, rushes forward with the joy of a hero ;

19.7 it rises at one end of the sky and finishes its course at the other end : nothing escapes its heat.

19.8 The law of the LORD is perfect ; it gives comfort ; the testimony of the Lord is true, he makes wise the inexperienced.

Source (Live Today)