With and Without Form

I’m glad man was not created until the sixth day of the creative week. Imagine how life would have been when “the earth was without form, and void (Gen. 1:2). I’m having trouble even imagining that as I write this from Whistler, in the beautiful, snow-covered mountains of British Columbia, Canada. While there is God-created beauty in the flatlands (I was in the desert of southeast New Mexico last weekend.) somehow “form” demonstrates itself more dramatically in the mountains. I love the beauty of both because they remind me of mankind. That which God created in nature, he duplicated in human beings. There are those folks whose life is like the mountains: bold, dramatic, highly-visible, etc. Then there are those whose life is like the flatland: plain, simple, non-assuming, etc. It would be a boring, monotonous existence if life was all mountains or all flatlands and if friends, were “without form, and void.” Would you like to join me this week in celebrating God’s creative diversity?

And join me in praying for the following global concerns:
• Pray for a new church start in Northeast Poland.
• Join students from Southwestern Baptist Seminary and me as we prayerwalk on Tuesday for new church starts in the Fraser River Delta, south of Vancouver, Canada.
• Pray for those suffering and recovering from the devastating floods in the southeast U.S. as well as those who are dealing with the consequences of an oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
• Give thanks that a 40 foot container belonging to a recently arrived missionary family made it from Texas to Zambia!