Psalm 40:5 “Many, O LORD my God, [are] thy wonderful works [which] thou hast done, and thy thoughts [which are] to us-ward: they cannot be reckoned up in order unto thee: [if] I would declare and speak [of them], they are more than can be numbered.&...
Continue ReadingJohn 1:14 “And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.” Gerbils are those friendly, furry little rodents that many children keep as pets....
Continue ReadingJohn 1:14 “And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.” Gerbils are those friendly, furry little rodents that many children keep as pets....
Continue ReadingPsalm 50:2 “Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God hath shined.” There are more than 200 species of fireflies around the world. Almost everyone has seen these small insects flying about or sitting in the grass. On dark summer nights they c...
Continue ReadingPsalm 104:24 “O LORD, how manifold are thy works! in wisdom hast thou made them all: the earth is full of thy riches.” Deep inside an ant colony, perhaps in a decaying log in northern Idaho or even the north woods of Minnesota, there are ants who th...
Continue ReadingPsalm 50:11 “I know all the fowls of the mountains: and the wild beasts of the field are mine.” Have you ever tried to get a bottle in a baby’s mouth in a dark room? It would be handy if the baby had a glowing target on its mouth. God has given ...
Continue ReadingLeviticus 3:5 “And Aaron’s sons shall burn it on the altar upon the burnt sacrifice, which is upon the wood that is on the fire: it is an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD.” What determines the sort of smells that we like an...
Continue ReadingPsalm 145:15 “The eyes of all wait upon thee; and thou givest them their meat in due season.” Shore birds like the oystercatcher search for buried mollusks by touch. They poke around in the sand, hoping to find a hard shelled mollusk. But if you have ...
Continue ReadingJob 12:7 8 “But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; and the fowls of the air, and they shall tell thee: Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee; and the fishes of the sea shall declare unto thee.” A number of species of fish live, ap...
Continue ReadingJob 28:24-25 “For he looketh to the ends of the earth, and seeth under the whole heaven; To make the weight for the winds; and he weigheth the waters by measure.” The bacterium Bacillus cereus likes to live in soil that would kill most other bacteria....
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