Carla was working yesterday when a customer with a young child came into the store.  While she can’t remember, somehow they go to talking about making socks.

Carla said that the lady showed her the socks that she was wearing.  They didn’t match, they had bits of yarn knitted into them – some ‘repurposed’ where the lady saw that one of her grandfather’s sweaters had some yarn removed to help make the socks.

Seems that her grandmother, like Carla, knits socks and gives them away.  One day the grandmother was over at her houses and noticed that she was wearing two different colors of socks.

She pointed that out to her – she knitted her a pair – matching pair – why is she wearing two different socks?

She said she told her grandmother that the baby was crying and she wanted to get to her quickly so just picked up a couple of socks, without paying attention and put them on before going to the baby.

So a few days later she received a ‘pair’ of socks, that didn’t match and had several different colors and several different yarns – that grandmother has to be a character.

We got the first of three greenhouses put up today, it will be enough for a couple of weeks, until the transplanted plants go into the much larger containers.

John 1:1-3 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

² The same was in the beginning with God.

³ All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.

Genesis 1:31 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.

As I woke up this morning, I was thinking about Creation.  God created the heavens and the earth and all that is within – He created them perfectly and there was no sin.

Yet, we look around us and we see sin at very corner of the world, we can’t get away from it unless we go into complete isolation – and even then we may have sin because we are not obeying God.

We know that when Adam sinned, what was a perfect world became a world of sin and sorrow.  Pain, injuries, illnesses, suffering that God never intended it to be.  He gave man a will and unfortunately Adam sinned and satan has been encouraged ever since.

God has foreknowledge so He knew that this would happen – yet because it was important to Him that man worshipped Him willingly He gave him a will of his own – and Adam chose to sin, just as we do.

What if we were given the opportunity to do what God did?

Create the universe and all that lies within it, heaven and earth, men and women, land and oceans, air and sea – all would be created by us.

What would you do, how would you do it?

We look at the world and we see an ever increasing knowledge of what God has created.  What the individual cell is made of and how it is compartmentalized.

We look at man and we see an extremely complex creation.  Bones and sinews and muscles to hold us up and enable us to move.  A heart that pumps oxygen and food to every single living cell in the body even to the smallest part, the base of hairs, the tips of our fingers, everything receives that life sustaining force and if somehow a part of the body is cut off from that source it dies.

We could go on and on, of course, we are learning more about the human body every day.  But every part is designed to work with the rest of the body to accomplish survival.

AND we are but one very small part of earth.

So what would we do if we were the Creator?

We can gather some thoughts on this by the way a carpenter plans the building of a house, or the engineer that plans a dam – all are done in intricate details so all workers know what is expected of them.

What materials are needed, how those materials are treated so they come together for a completed project.

It takes time and knowledge and materials – none of it builds itself.

The writers of science fiction are skilled and imaginative.  They can visualize what it would be like if something happens in the future, or if there is another planet that has life ‘forms’ on it – even designing space ships and the inhabitants – sometimes including how they will eat, and dress and how they react to others.

But what would we do if we had the opportunity to create a new universe separate from anything we now know?

Who would be in charge?  Who makes the rules and if they are broken, what is the punishment?

Man has tried Utopian societies – and some work on a very limited scale, but still there are rules to follow.

Would all the people look alike?  Would they have the same skills – and if they didn’t which would be the most important?

Or, would you not have man involved at all – just animals?

Such a project, for us, would take years to formulate before we could put it in place.   And when we look at the complexity of all life on earth it would take us centuries even using the finest computers.

What would be your perfect world?  On the surface it is a simple question, in reality there are thousands even millions of variables that we would have to take into account to make a perfect world.

God gave us the blue print in Genesis.  How could we have kept the world perfect?

It started out that way.  What would we do?

How long will man live, forever, or just a specified time?

Would we take away the freedom of choice and thus control everyone – as God chose to do in heaven but not here on earth?

Man has tried over the years, dictators have tried, communism has tried, democracies, many try and say that everyone is equal and will be treated the same – but of course that isn’t the case. 

No matter how man sets up society, there are always those that will take advantage of a situation, jealousy, greed, self-importance always enters into the equation.  There are always leaders that feel they deserve special privileges and since they ‘rule’ they obtain them to the detriment of others.

If you created the perfect world, how would you deal with sin?

It is something to think about, albeit briefly, because we do not live in such a world.  We can make it better by obeying the Creator of this world and allowing Him to work within us to reach perfection – eventually.

Once we accept Christ, who was there at the very beginning and before, we will have comfort in the fact that though we live in a world full of evil – He loves and cares enough for us to be with us at all times and when our breath stops He will welcome us into heaven – where it is undeniably perfect.

Later, Art :-)