Day Six: Six Geese a-laying
For you shall go out in joy and be led forth in peace; the mountains and the hills before you shall break forth into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands. (Isaiah 55:12 ESV)
Creation
This verse is not about the gift. It is not about the geese. This verse is about what those geese are doing. They are laying eggs.
At times we become so used to the amazingness of the mundane that our eyes only look way, way up to find things for which to praise God. But this verse reminds us that the daily, seemingly automatic, commonplace events also are under Christ’s rule, and are worthy of our attention and praise.
Even the ongoing natural events in creation.
These days our society seems to have forgotten where everything came from. Ideas range from a theory of a Big Bang, to an eternal progression of matter and energy. Or we just do not think about it, but let the effects of creation go on around us unnoticed. But our Triune God made everything, upholds everything, and has redeemed everything.
That gift of egg-laying geese reminds us that the one true living God, the God of Christians, has His fingers in everything that happens around us. Geese do not just lay eggs, Christ made it so, makes it so, and will make it so.
We can not control creation, even though we try. But Jesus can.