When Is The First Day of Spring?

God directs it all. Seasons, leaders, everything.

He even directs what we think we invented.

What Do You Think God Says About Our Discoveries?

Discoveries, right? After all, we aren’t inventing things — we’re discovering them. Nothing could be invented if God didn’t think of it first.

What do I mean?

Here’s a great example: 

The Human Genome Project lasted from 1988 (when it was conceived) to 2003 (when the results were published). I had high-school and college-aged daughters who participated in the science community’s celebration at the conclusion of the project. 

And it was very exciting. Still, I had to wonder what God was doing during the celebration.

• Clapping hands, wide-eyed, at the “new” information we now had to enlighten him?  I seriously doubt it.
• Or smiling in a fatherly way, as we do when a child finally masters a math concept? Possibly.

We didn’t invent DNA, we didn’t design it. We discovered the design.

It took 15 years to compose the complete description of DNA.

“DNA is the chemical name for the molecule that carries genetic instructions in all living things. “

[That’s from Genome.gov]

Wikipedia describes it as “a “molecule composed of two polynucleotide chains that coil around each other to form a double helix carrying genetic instructions for the development, functioning, growth and reproduction of all known organisms and many viruses.”

A big deal, a huge deal, that science celebrated the discovery of the design of a gene that directs the cells of our bodies.

You heard that, right?  Design, Direct. 

So it’s kinda funny that now (just twenty years later) we’re racing to erase design, insisting it’s not there. Right after we discovered it was.

Even though there’s proof you’re designed, you’re told you’re not.  (You can be whoever you think you are, not who your DNA programmed you to be.)

 That’s just not so.

😍 I’m lookin at you, humans.

 I thank God for you, and for your design.

I’m looking at how you were designed, how God matched your eyes and your hair, made your beauty something your young could inherit. 

And watching a world try to erase that. Of course it can’t be done. But they’re doing a pretty good job of convincing you that it can.

 God made you, and I will not argue with you about that. 

Design. Did you ever look at pansies really close? Their blooms are called “faces” and the lines that extend out are called “whiskers”.  I’m sure there’s more to say, but you can really become fascinated with the intricate design of pansies.

And speaking of faces, don’t you think it’s amazing that the design of our faces is the center of our communication? That’s important!

Look at someone’s eyes today. The intricate design of the iris, all the colors and patterns there. Masterpieces of mosaic art, simply there.

Fingerprints — another unbelievable mathematical miracle. Your ten fingerprints are unique to you. Everybody knows that.

What we don’t think about is that your fingerprints are never repeated in anyone else in the world for all of time. That’s all the people who have ever lived, times ten. And they are the size of a dime. 

BTW, Google shows us sites which estimate the number of people who have existed is 117 billion. (That’s over 1 trillion fingers, for the mathematically challenged.)