Ever So Perfectly

Early this morning I heard a loud noise. I sat up in bed and realized it was raining. Raining really hard, and really loud. It was only 4:45am, so I wasn’t happy about being woken up. Slightly annoyed, I trudged downstairs and stared out into the darkness, watching the rain bouncing off our concrete deck. My first thought was, “Won’t be able to go golfing today. Darn rain!” But then I had a bit of an epiphany. Without rain, there would be no golf courses. Heck, there would be no earth. Rain is a pretty perfect thing the way it nourishes our planet. 

And that got me thinking about earlier in the week…

Last Thursday my wife and I did some babysitting. As I looked down at our little 18-month-old granddaughter, I noticed how perfect her tiny fingers and toes were and I was reminded how amazing the human body is. The average human body contains over 20 square feet of skin and is made of up over twenty-seven trillion living cells. If you tried to count them at the rate of 1 per second it would take you over 2 million years to finish. Each cell is unique as is each living person. I wonder how we were made ever so perfectly.

Last Friday was a beautiful, warm sunny day, so my wife and I went for a walk around our neighborhood. Looking up I noticed our sun is extremely large. In fact it makes up 98% of the mass of our solar system and is so big that you could fit over one million earths inside of it. The most incredible thing is the precision of its distance from the earth. If it were even one mile closer we would melt and if it were farther away we would freeze. I wonder how it was created ever so perfectly.

On Saturday evening we went out to dinner and sat at an outdoor patio table. The moon was shining brightly right above us. Did you know that the moon plays a super important role in our lives. It regulates our seasons by stabilizing the tilt of the earth’s axis. If it wasn’t positioned with a one-and-a-half-degree tilt our oceans would slosh like bathwater at the mercy of a playful child. Basically, the moon keeps the earth habitable for us. I wonder how it got tilted ever so perfectly.

I know that not everything or everyone is this world is perfect… far from it. But when I take the time to notice the perfection in the simplest things around me, I have no doubt that we and our world were created ever so perfectly!

And God saw everything that He had made, 

and behold, it was very good.

~ Genesis 1:31