Do you think God toiled when He made the world?
Did He get down on His hands and knees,
to carve out each river?
to sculpt each valley dip and mountain peak?
Did His fingers ache after cutting out each leaf on every tree ever to grow?
After creating the unique textures of the bark on each tree?
Did He step back to admire His first sunrise,
and smile at His color pallet?
What about when God made me?
Was it labor some to count out each hair on my head?
to find the right color for my tone of skin?
How long did He spend mixing hues to make the tints and glints in my iris’?
Did He smile,
at the color pallet He chose for me?
“it was one day He did this was it not? The sixth day: when God made man.”
And yet God is outside of time;
He can take as much as He desires,
without using any at all.
So,
did it happen in an instant?
In a snap of His enigmatic fingers?
Or was it slow, with precision,
in a different kind of instant we can never understand;
a toilsome one.
I like to consider the latter
You are a poet! A lovely and childlike attitude is required to ask these questions and ponder them about our heavenly Papa who knows us and places mysteries in life for our good pleasure and His!! Love u Ellie g!
I think when He made us, it was a grand but effortless work in much the same way that a band who has been playing together for a long time can play a song they came up with long ago and have been playing for years. The song is highly technical and anyone less familiar with it would fail miserably if they tried to play it. A TON of effort went into making it, but at this point, it just naturally flows out of them because it is a part of them and because it is something they love, and all the effort that was put into making it was done Lovingly in Joy. When the Creator created all things, He had humanity in mind as His masterpiece, making a good world full of beauty for us to enjoy before we ever existed. And we are to be like Him in this way, we were created to create beautiful things in community out of love and joy because we are beautiful things created by a Creator in Community out of Love and Joy. (Genesis 1:26-31, Ephesians 2:10, Colossians 1:10, 1st John 4:19, Hebrews 10:24, Psalm 138:8, Exodus 31:1-6)
thanks Shane!! gosh sick response I miss your wisdom ((: