On the Beauty of Creation

What will always amaze me about the reflection of God’s beauty in His creation is its contrast to the beauty created by man.  Man may paint a picture and call it beautiful.  But generally, it’s only beautiful as a whole.  One corner of the picture might look like nothing but disconnected colors.
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What’s more, the closer you get to the painting, the less beauty there is to behold. Look at it through a magnifying glass and the random bumps and pits in the texture of dried paint delivers nothing in the way of beauty.  If you’re looking at a print instead of a painting, you see an organized arrangement of ink dots…but the organization doesn’t make it beautiful either.  Get even closer, and you see the texture of the paper…perhaps it’s interesting, but it’s not something you’d call beautiful.

God’s creations, on the other hand, are beautiful as parts, or beautiful as a whole.  And the inherent beauty is observable at any distance or magnification. 

Beginning with our planet, we see the beautiful blue and white set against the dark blackness of space.  We come closer to land and see a wonderful landscape of rolling hills and the colors of red, orange, and yellow in the fall.  Upon closer inspection, each tree itself proves beautiful in the somehow random but deliberate array of limbs and roots.  This same paradox of organized yet random beauty is illustrated again in the network of veins in just one leaf, or in the mosaic pattern on the bark.  Under a microscope, we find the building blocks of the tree; cells arranged to carry out tasks independently yet working on a whole to carry on life.  We see this same kind marvel within the cell, the cell parts, the strands of DNA, the molecules, the atoms…

God’s beauty is literally everywhere…displaying His magnificence on every level.  It’s no wonder that the very first question every man asks is : Who did all this?

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