the sea horse

The sea horse declares the glories of God. This unique creation gallops slowly near the shore with its tail twisting forward gripping seaweed. The seahorse is an amazing creation that describes a lot about our amazing Creator

The sea horse is incredibly unique. Its protective bony armor cleverly protects it from imminent danger. Its armor is so strong that it is almost impossible to crush a dried dead sea horse in your hands. Its tough skeleton is not a yummy or crunchy for predators. 

The sea horse unlike all other fish in that its head is set at right angles to its body. It swims with its body held upright. It can bend its head down or up, but not from side to side. To most this would seem like a handicap, but the Creator in His amazing wisdom has designed the seahorse’s eyes to move independently, swiveling around in any direction to watch each side. 

The sea horse uses its fins to swim vertically, and rises or sinks by cleverly altering the volume of gas within its swim bladder [w/o the use of Beano!?]. If this bladder is damaged, and it loses even a tiny bit of gas, it sinks to the bottom, where it will lie helpless until death.

The most unique characteristic of the sea horse, compared to all other animals in God’s creation, is that the male gives births to its young. The male sea horse has a kangaroo like pouch built into its armor. The female lays the eggs directly into this pouch, where the male fertilizes them. She may lay as many as 600 eggs. Once impregnated the dad-to-be swims off as the baby incubator. One or two months later he gives birth to tiny replicas of their parents.

The sea horse is like the platypus. As far as evolution is concerned: it presents an enigma that baffles and frustrates all theories that seek to disprove a Creator. It is easy to see when one looks at the sea horse that there is a Divine Designer.

 

frozen in time

I wonder what this place looked like a few hundred years ago. Have you ever thought that? 
 
Today I took a walk at the Tippecanoe Battlefield and the Wabash Heritage Trail. It was so beautiful out. The night before we had an ice storm that coated everything in a thin layer of translucent ice. As I walked along the pathway I wondered who walked this same ground. Probably Indians and early settlers. What did they look like? What language did they speak? What were they having for dinner? Did their children play in the creek?  
 
It was a great walk.   
 
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utterly undefinable and indescribable

Imagine you are living among the Uga-Buga tribe of Congo Africa. They have never heard about God. How might you creatively explain your God to them? Or you meet a kid that asks you who God is and what He is like. How will you explain to that kid your God? Can you define your God in a word or phrase?
 
Can you say, “uuuhhhmmmm”? You cannot define God in mere words or phrases. No book, volume of books or library of congress filled with books about God can explain Him fully or completely.
 
John Wesley said, “Give me a worm that can understand man, and I will give you a man that can understand God.”
 
A.W. Tozer says about God, “The mightiest thought the mind can entertain is the thought of God, and the weightiest word in any language is its word for God.”
 
George MacDonald adds, “do not measure God’s mind by your own.”
 
Face it, you worship an indescribable God and that is wilder than our wildest imaginations and greater than anything you could ever think of. And why is God indescribable? Because He made things surrounding us that we can’t even begin to describe. The world of astronomy showcases God’s indescribable glory. Psalms 19, talks about how the Heavens are telling the glory of God. “Day after day and night after night the heavens are our billboard about God,” says Louie Giglio, “The heavens show us two things: 1. How huge God is; and 2. How really, really, really tiny we are!”
 
God in our galaxy, displays for us the majesty and splendor that He created. When you get a snapshot of the galaxy farther and farther away from our own planet scientists tell us there are billons of galaxies beyond ours. We were reminded that the God who has a name for each and every galaxy, star and planet in the entire universe, is the same God who can call each of us by name and care about everything we go through. That is the same God who showed us such power in creating a universe bigger than what we can possibly imagine is the same God who chose to bring forgiveness to us by sending his son, Jesus, to earth as a servant to die for our sins.
 
Who is your God? How well do you know Him? What does your life say about the God you know?
 
I do not just want to ‘know about God’, but I want to ‘KNOW GOD”!

 

this time of the year

I love this time of the year, especially these next two weeks. It is such a  “fresh” and “lively” time of the year.
 
Spring. It’s warm from the sun shining, flowers are budding, birds are chirping, and people are out-and-about.
 
Easter. It’s about celebration and reflection of the One I call Savior who sacrificed His life for me. He still lives.