THURSDAY, JANUARY 5, 2012 -- IT'S A BEAUTIFUL LIFE

God is perfect.  God loves beauty.  God gifted the finest artists throughout history with vision and skill to paint and sculpt beautiful pieces that awaken appreciation and imagination in us.  God is the ultimate artist and He has marvelously expressed that beauty is human beings.  With care and love and attention to the finest details, God crafted us.

“[God], You made all the delicate inner parts of my body and knit me together in my mother’s womb…Your workmanship is marvelous…You watched me as I was being formed in utter seclusion, as I was woven together in the dark of the womb. You saw me before I was born. Every day of my life was recorded in your book…How precious are Your thoughts about me, O God! They are innumerable! I can’t even count them; they outnumber the grains of sand. (Psalm 139). God has even counted the hairs on our heads (Matthew 10).

God’s attention and artistic skill did not end the day we were born.  In the same way a weaver takes many threads and weaves them into intricate patterns for a wall hanging or a rug, so God continues to weave beauty into the world as He brings together the details of each day of our life.  Every day of our life is recorded and God’s attentive presence in each of those days is clearly seen by the vast number of times He thinks about us.  One handful of sands contains thousands of grains.  How many grains of sand cover every beach on earth?  God’s thoughts turn towards us more often than that.  When you multiply that number by 80 or 90 years, it means quite a few thousand thoughts from God, on our behalf.  Which details of our life are left to chance and error?  None.  God is making something beautiful of our life.