Photo Credit: Stefan Schweihofer (username: stux)
Key Verse
“The heavens declare the glory of God. The expanse shows his
handiwork.” Psalms 19:1 (WEB)
Lesson
What evidence is there that God really created the universe,
you, and me? How do we know that God deserves our praise? Sometimes it seems
hard to know where everything came from. We hear all sorts of ideas about where
we came from and how the world got here. Thankfully, God did not leave us to
guess about these questions. Have you ever noticed all the beauty in nature?
Why is there beauty? Science exists to tell us how things work. But religion helps us find out why. The Bible tells us that God made
everything to show us his glory, or his wonder and majesty. It also tells us
that he created this earth for our pleasure and to show us he loves and cares
for us. That is why beauty exists.
That is why everything exists.
Have you ever looked at something in nature and thought,
“that could not have happened by accident? It must have been made and
designed.” We know when we find a plastic bottle on the ground that it was made
by humans. We also know someone threw it there instead of in a trashcan. We
understand that it did not grow there naturally.
In nature we see evidence of a designer. Once such evidence
is the Golden Ratio (a.k.a. the Fibonacci Sequence). In math this is a series
of numbers where the next number is the sum of the two proceeding numbers.
(Example: 1,2,3,5,8,13, etc.) It can get very complex. But the Golden Ratio
translates into a spiral pattern we see often. It appears all around us in
nature from the smallest to the biggest things. It is seen on the pinecone
bottom, snail shells, the shape of ocean waves, even the spiral of galaxies. It
can be seen in the center of flowers in the composite family such as the
sunflower. The Golden Ratio has been called the fingerprint of God because it
appears from the smallest atom to the biggest galaxy. It is like God’s
signature in creation. And best of all, it adds beauty.
Psalms 19:1 says that the heavens declare God’s glory and
show how powerful he is. He is the God of creation; the One who made everything
else that exists. No one is greater. That is why he deserve our praise. Romans
1:20 tells us that nature points to the all powerful God. It shows he is there
and that he cares for us. So we have no excuse to think he is not there or that
he does not take care of us. God loves each of us. And he made everything good you
can see just to prove it.
Questions
How do you see design displayed in nature?
How do you think God feels when we destroy his creation?
What do you think God thinks about all the ways his creation has been messed up since Adam and Eve sinned?
In what ways can we show God our thanks and praise for what he made?
Questions
How do you see design displayed in nature?
How do you think God feels when we destroy his creation?
What do you think God thinks about all the ways his creation has been messed up since Adam and Eve sinned?
In what ways can we show God our thanks and praise for what he made?
