Daily Devotional, Year 3 – February 18 (Nature’s Witnesses, part 7: ‘The Beauty of Nature'”)

By admin On April 9th, 2016

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Daily Devotional, Year 3 – February 18

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Nature’s Witnesses,

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Part 7:

“The Beauty of Nature”

To read Part 1, click here…January 25th (Nature’s 7 Witnesses)

“The heavens declare the glory of God;

and the firmament sheweth His handywork.”

Psalm 19:1

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BEAUTY, POETRY, WISDOM & LAWS

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ALL TESTIFY OF OUR CREATOR!

Instead of arguing about the technical issues in the debate between Evolution and Creation, there are seven powerful witnesses all which testify in behalf of a divine Creator.

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And so, in Part 1 (click here), it was put forth that in all of nature, there are four witnesses, who all testify in behalf of the Creator! Beauty, Poetry, Wisdom, and Laws, all stand up and speak so eloquently in defense of nature’s God!

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And it would seem, that any doubter or skeptic, who would open his or her mind to carefully consider the testimony of these four very persuasive witnesses, would eventually come to the same conclusion: there has to be a Creator, who is filled with these same qualities:

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God, the Creator of nature’s beauty.

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God, the Creator of nature’s poetry.

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God, the Creator of nature’s wisdom.

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God, the Creator of nature’s law & order.

ABOVE PICTURE – Starry Night at La Silla – cropped and altered image – Wikimedia – Share-Alike license

3 MORE WITNESSES!

**But since the writing of that first devotional (click here), yet another three witnesses are found in nature!**

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God, the Creator of nature’s Love.

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God, the Creator of nature’s Majestic Grandeur.

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And God, the Creator of nature’s signs in the sun, moon, and stars.

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So now, we have discovered, not 4, but actually 7 witnesses to God’s creative genius!

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Three elephant’s curly kisses – cropped image – Wikimedia – Share-alike License

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NATURE’S BEAUTY

But today’s devotional wants to focus more on “The beauty found in nature”.

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Because it is really difficult to believe evolutionists’ claim that the universe is the result of some giant cosmic accident which brought about such a grand and beautiful universe! And so (they claim), out of nothing came everything: life, love, and laws innumerable!

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Sunset at Huntington Beach – cropped image – Wikimedia – Share-alike License

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South American Butterfly – cropped image – Wikipedia – Share-Alike License

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Tuolumne Meadows Sunset – cropped image – Wikimedia – share-alike license

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Lilies – Sunrise at Camas Prairie Centennial Park – Wikimedia – Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license.

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Jamaica sunrise – Adam L. Clevenger – cropped image – Wikipedia. Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.5 Generic license.

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Neon Saturn aurora cassini – NASA

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ABOVE PICTURE – Starry Night at La Silla – cropped and altered image – Wikimedia – Share-Alike license

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Elakala Waterfalls Swirling Pool Mossy Rocks – cropped image – Wikimedia – Share-alike License

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Colorful Parrots Couple – Wikipedia – Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license.

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Sunflowers – Wikipedia – Public Domain

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Snowflakes – Wilson Bentley – Wikimedia – Public Domain

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And so, we are to believe that all this beauty is the result of some giant explosion?

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Well, you be the judge.

“For the invisible things of Him

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from the creation of the world are clearly seen,

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being understood by the things that are made,

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even His eternal power and Godhead;

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so that they are without excuse”

Romans 1:20

Sunrise from Burrow Mump, Burrowbridge, Somerset – cropped image – Wikimedia – Share-alike License

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CREATION MOMENTS

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Now, if the reader would like to learn more about the Beauty of nature, please bookmark this following daily 2 minute broadcast called, “Creation Moments” in which a different aspect of nature is highlighted each weekday…click here…. “CREATION MOMENTS”

Giant Cuttlefish – cropped image – Wikimedia – Creative Commons Attribution

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TO READ PART 8, GO HERE…

June 24 (Nature’s Witnesses, Part 8: “The Awesome Grandeur of Nature”)

Golden eagle in flight – Wikipedia – the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license

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TODAY’S PRAYER…

“Dear Lord, Give me the joy of knowing more about the wonders of nature. Help me to see, not only the wisdom and poetry of nature, and the law and order of nature, but also the many pictures of Love and Beauty: God’s Love and Beauty in nature…

Beagle and sleeping kitty – Wikimedia – Creative Commons Attribution 2.0

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THE END

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TODAY’S FEATURED HEAVENLY SIGN

Info & pics of constellations on this site from Wikipedia & Internation Astronomical Union (click here)

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HEAVENLY OBJECT LESSON

“Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed, when the LORD of hosts shall reign in mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, and before his ancients gloriously.” Isaiah 24:23

When God created the Moon and the stars, He ordained them to “rule the night” (Gen. 1:16). The Moon, especially when it is full, can light your pathway through the night, as it reflects the light of the Sun.

So too, the Christian is to be a light to the world: to this sin-darkened world. But as the Moon must reflect the light of the Sun, in order to be a light to the world, so also must the Christian reflect the light of Jesus, to be a spiritual light to this planet in rebellion. Listen…

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“Ye are the light of the world…Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.” Matthew 5:14-16

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However, during an eclipse, the Earth passes directly between the Sun and the Moon, preventing that sunlight from shining on the Moon’s face. This is an incredible object-lesson about when the child of God allows the world to come between him and his Lord. Like the eclipse, that person no longer reflects the light of Jesus, because his or her love of this dark world of sin has eclipsed the light from the “Sun of Righteousness” (see Malachi 4:2).

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**And so, this is just one of the many poetic truths seen in the Moon. (For more on this subject of an eclipse, you may link to the article… “Lunar Eclipse & Spiritual Eclipse”)**

Dutch Painting: Um_moinho_dominando_a_baía_à_luz_lunar wikimedia US public domain

This is a drawing of a winter-time total lunar eclipse, first published in Bilder- (Picture Atlas of the Stemenwelt) in 1888

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TOMORROW:

February 19 (Flee To The Mountains, Part 11: “How To Be Like John the Baptist: Benefits of Nature”)

John the Baptist by Harold Copping www.wikigallery.com US public domain

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above picture: Prophet Jeremiah – www.christianimagesource.org – Public Domain

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