Just recently I was driving around and it began to snow. I love driving in the snow especially at night. With both of my boys, we played Star Wars and the snow looks like you're flying through hyper-space. Anyway I was sitting at a red light and was looking at the design of the snow flakes as they hit the windshield. Each flake was intricately beautiful and unique. It made me think about something my wife found inside a gift bag. It was a quote from and photographer from the 1920s named Wilson A. Bentley (The snowflake Man) that figured out a way to take a photo of snow flakes. Here is what he said:
The Snowflake Man
"Under the microscope, I found that snowflakes were miracles of beauty; and it seemed a shame that this beauty should not be seen and appreciated by others. Every crystal was a masterpiece of design and no one design was ever repeated., When a snowflake melted, that design was forever lost. Just that much beauty was gone, without leaving any record behind."
If God put that much detail, care, and uniqueness in snow flakes, how much more did He put in you? Look at these versus to see how much God thinks of you:
- Psalm 139:13-14 (New International Version)
13 For you created my inmost being;
you knit me together in my mother's womb.
14 I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
your works are wonderful,
I know that full well.
- Luke 12:6-7 (New International Version)
6Are not five sparrows sold for two pennies[a]? Yet not one of them is forgotten by God. 7Indeed, the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Don't be afraid; you are worth more than many sparrows. - Matthew 6:25-34 (New International Version)
Do Not Worry
25"Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes? 26Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? 27Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life[a]?
28"And why do you worry about clothes? See how the lilies of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. 29Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. 30If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? 31So do not worry, saying, 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we wear?' 32For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. 33But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. 34Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.
Whenever you can, take some time to look closely at a snow flake and consider how God created it for you to show His love and awesome glory.
Pastor Steve
