Design

I want you to find something in your home – a cabinet, a picture, a knick-knack – in which you find beauty. I want you to spend some time with it. Touch it, look closely at the intricacies of the item you’ve chosen. Notice the lines or curves, the colors and quality. If it is wood, notice the grain of the wood. If it is glass, fabric, or some other material, notice the individual engravings, the texture, or different colors.

Think of the work that went into this object even if it was mass produced. It started with an idea in someone’s mind. That idea had to be put on paper and a blueprint created to show the individual pieces and how they would all go together. How would the design be mapped out?  What colors would be used and how would they be applied? Was there engraving to be done or yarn to be spun?

Consider the tools and equipment, the molds and the paint colors required to render this object. If the equipment or molds or colors didn’t already exist, they would need to be designed and built or created. It probably took some trial and error to get the design and the prototypes just right. The timing of each process and the flow of those processes had to be coordinated so the assembly of the product went smoothly and in order.

The item had to be packed and shipped to a distribution center and eventually to the store where you purchased it.  The item had to be received and inventoried by the store. It then had to be placed in an appropriate area of the store for your attention to be drawn to it and desire created in you to purchase the item.

None of these things happened by accident. It took people thinking through all of this, inventing the equipment, the paints, and the materials required. It took people developing shipping and receiving processes, stores being built and manned. In other words, it took a lot to bring that one item into being and into your home.

Now think about creation – the animals, birds, and fish. Think about the trees, the plants, ground coverings such as moss. Picture the mountains, the plains, the stream, lakes, and oceans. Let’s not forget things in the earth such as minerals, oil, coal, silver, copper, and gold. The sun comes up every morning, rain and snow fall, and stars adorn the sky at night.

Have you ever really considered how amazing the human body – your body – is with all its complexity? We have eyes to see, ears to hear. We have the senses of taste, touch, and smell. And where, may I ask, are the blueprints for these things? The design sketches, the prototypes? No two trees, birds, or fish are alike. No two humans, even twins, are exactly alike. Yet here we are. Each and everyone of us unique. We have unique fingerprints, unique footprints, unique voice patters, unique handwriting.

Did this really happen by accident? If evolution is a fact, why are there so many differences among species in a given area? Why do dogs have personalities and why are cats, well, cats? Why did so many thousands of species develop if everything is merely a result of evolution?

We are not accidents. The world we live in is not an accident. The fact there are certain flora that provide healing to our bodies is not an accident. Just as it took the minds of man to develop and create that object you find so beautiful, we have a creator that designed and created each one of us – individually. We were not mass produced. He created us: For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother’s womb.” Psalm 139:13

Just for Today look around you with awe at all God has created and be amazed at the beauty he has given each one of us!

I knew you before I formed you in your mother’s womb.
Before you were born I set you apart
And appointed you as my prophet to the nations.
Jeremiah 1:5 NLT

Here is a beautiful video I think you will enjoy!
https://andiesisle.com/magnificent/creation_calls.html

– PSG –