While I don’t have a lot of problem with light deprivation – where a person gets depressed when he doesn’t see the sun – I have to admit that when I awakened this morning to a bright – bright – sunshiny day I was pleased.

Clouds are now starting to come in, but it has been great seeing blue skies and the mountains, although Mt. Hood was obscured a bit from clouds there.

Not to rub it in for those that are facing the winter storm that is hitting the east coast – we won’t have this sunshine for long, due to get our own bits of moisture as the day goes on.

Had a visit with Teresa this afternoon, Wanda, her dog, came along.  Wanda stayed outside, but wanted in and eventually pushed passed us – the cats scattered – and they still haven’t come out of hiding though Wanda has been gone for over an hour.

Most exercise they have gotten is a while.

Genesis 1:1  In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

Vs 31 And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.

Mathew 14:28-31  And Peter answered him and said, Lord, if it be thou, bid me come unto thee on the water.

²⁹ And he said, Come. And when Peter was come down out of the ship, he walked on the water, to go to Jesus.

³⁰ But when he saw the wind boisterous, he was afraid; and beginning to sink, he cried, saying, Lord, save me.

³¹ And immediately Jesus stretched forth his hand, and caught him, and said unto him, O thou of little faith, wherefore didst thou doubt?

wherefore didst thou doubt?

Why, indeed?

Everything we know about the universe.  Everything we continue discovering all point to a creator.

No one expects a car to evolve from a bicycle; or a house from a pile of wood.  Someone has to plan what needs to be done, they figure out what materials are needed to accomplish the task.

They gather those materials and then they create the final product.

The smallest creature, the smallest atom in the universe is a complex thing.  It didn’t just come about it was designed and created by God to serve a specific function and the means to accomplish that function.

Recently scientist have discovered  “a tiny multicellular animal, which scientists call "Trix" for short, doesn't use its brain at all at mealtime. In fact, it doesn't have a brain or a single nerve cell in its whole millimeter-sized body.

So how is it that these tiny, brainless creatures are found worldwide, crawling across shallow seafloors on a belly covered in hairlike cilia in search of algae? Scientists have recently discovered that Trix have a whole bag of tricks that enable them to seek out algae with surprising sophistication.

According to an article in LiveScience, when scientists used light and electron microscopy to look up close at Trix, they found two previously unknown cell types, giving Trix a total of six body cell types in all. By contrast, humans have hundreds of different cell types. Scientists think that one of these new cell types – which they call "crystal cells" – allows Trix to sense their environment, thus enabling it to find its lunch on the seafloor.”  Copied from Creation Moments published 01-19-2016

We look at the moon, stars and other planets, man can determine what their rate of revolution is, how long their days and nights, how often they go around the sun – comets can be counted on to arrive in the skies at certain times. 

We look all around us and see the hand of God – it is only after we take our eyes off of Him that we are blinded to Him and His ability to create.

Peter looked out and saw that Jesus was walking on the water.  He had enough faith in Jesus to ask Him to call him out to Him.

Peter stepped out onto the sea, but when he looked around him, when he took his eyes off Jesus, he faltered and needed Jesus to lift him up.

Peter cried out Lord, save me.

Jesus didn’t say, tough, you don’t have enough faith so drown.  He didn’t let him flounder – when Peter looked back to Jesus and asked Him to save him, Jesus reached out and saved him.

Why did Peter doubt, he saw Jesus walking on the water, he knew it was Him and he had enough to accept Him and that He could do the same for Peter.

But Peter looked away and in doing so he couldn’t see the miracle that was before Him. 

We do the same thing when we question the writings in the Bible and start looking for other reasons for the universe.

The evidence is before us.  Why do we doubt?

We have allowed those that would deny God and His Word to shape our belief system, rather than defying the world’s vision and turning our eyes back to God.

But, if we cry out to God, ‘Lord, save me.’  He will.  He will also guide us in the truth of His Word that we might be more effective for Him AND that we will be able to rest in the knowledge that God is God and we need not trouble ourselves over the how or why, and trust in His guidance for out lives.

If He can create the smallest cell to survive in harsh conditions, He can help Man – created in His image – to survive all this world has and live eternally for Him.

Later, Art :-)