Watching as Carla slip slided down the driveway at a very slow speed and thinking, ‘we are going to be under a winter warning from tomorrow night through Saturday morning,’ this winter could get serious!  Forecast from Saturday on is warmer, at least for a bit.

Now, this really is a winter!  Yes, there are drawbacks, but the reality of having all four real seasons, instead of a makeshift fourth is nice.  But, I do have to admit I will not mourn the coming of spring.

Looking around the living room I see all the animals that would much prefer to be inside than out there – although they enjoy if for a bit of time.  Especially Abby who will roll in it for a bit, then the bare sidewalk and then heads back in.  She is the one cat that much prefers the outside, she follows Carla around like a dog as she works in the garden during the other three seasons.

Carla will be starting her plants shortly.  Then all the milk cartons we have been saving will be put to use after a couple of weeks as she transplants them so they can go into the green houses.

Farmers.  I love them.  I love their optimism and their desire to take care of their families with hard work and soiled hands.  They are the one business that wholly depends on so much that is beyond their control – yet, they feed not only THEIR families but the rest of us as well.

They are a special people.

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Exodus 27:1 And thou shalt make an altar of shittim wood, five cubits long, and five cubits broad; the altar shall be foursquare: and the height thereof shall be three cubits KJV.

God was very specific about how He wanted the altar made.

Why?  After all the men who made this were skilled craftsmen.  Men capable of designing something of this nature and then following the design; yet God was very precise and detailed every part of the altar.

How long did it take God to create our world and all that is within it?

The religion of evolution declares that everything was by happenstance and it took over 5-6 billion +/- years to get to where we are now.

They cannot accept that someone created the universe from nothing, while theories vary it all comes down to the universe became because of an inert matter – there is no explanation to where that matter, in whatever form, came about.  I would think even it, if their theory is true, would have needed to be created by something.

We know God always was and always will be.  Before He started the actual creation of the universe, did He spend part of the time planning each detail out?

When we look at how complicated everything is in this world – we realize it goes beyond the surface into such minute detail we still are discovering new things about all within and around us.

As I read this passage of scripture and how precise and exact God ordered the altar to be built it doesn’t surprise me.

God created an interactive world.  We have plants that are dependent upon animals to survive and vice versa.  Plants create the oxygen we need to live and we create the carbon dioxide.

They are exact in their function – this process was planned and executed this way so that both would survive.

Scientists have found that a specific plant must be used by a specific animal and the animal needs that specific plant to survive.  Yet, evolutionists declare that they both evolved to depend on each other.

How?  Which one came first?  How long did it take to reach such a very limited plant or animal?

God’s plans for the altar give us some insight into His planning ability for this universe. 

Whether He designed as He created or had the plans all set up for each day we don’t really know, and frankly it doesn’t matter – the fact that we live in a world so complex that with the invention of more and better equipment to get a peek into that complexity tells us that it was not by accident, the Creator was precise and knew exactly what He wanted and knew exactly how to Create it.

I can remember walking the rail road tracks and making contact with the hobos.  These men were quite creative when building their shelters.  They used whatever they could find that would help them stay out of the weather. 

However, those shelters didn’t last long, weather and other things eventually destroyed them.  They were not safe and we lost one of them because the stove he used to keep warm set fire to his shelter and he was killed.

Even these men would prefer to live in a shelter that was well made and followed a design to withstand the elements and be able to last more than a few weeks.

While there are a variety of reasons why they did not, we know that they strived to build something that would help keep them warm.

But even in their haphazard manner they had a plan, they knew how to create the walls; they used discarded pallets, cardboard and wood to make it sturdier, they found tarps to put over the walls to help keep heat in and moisture out.  They built stoves out of large tin cans and fashioned stove pipe out of discarded metal.

Those shelters didn’t just happen, they were planned and created.

This world didn’t just happen, especially with all the complexity and minute details required to have even a small insect survive in this world.

The same God that planned this universe out and created all that is within it is the same God that wants to bring us into His family.

Even as He knew that Adam and Eve would falter and sin, He planned a redemption for man and when He was ready, in His time, He sent His only begotten Son to live, teach and then die for us.

He has plans for each of us.  However, He leaves it to us to either trust Him and follow His plan, or go to our own devices and suffer the consequences.

I need to remind myself, daily, that the Creator of this Universe has a specific plan for my day.  I need to seek His guidance and wisdom as I go about it.

Later, Art (-: