Landscaping God's Way

Landscaping God’s Way

How many of you have redecorated a room or remodeled a kitchen or bathroom?  When you got it the way you wanted it, you were happy with the result.  Well, you are created in the “likeness of God”!  Perhaps it never occurred to you that God is just like you.  He has a photographic memory.  Do you get bored at looking at the same scene all the time and every time?  You are just like God in that respect.  The Creator enjoys remodeling too.

God landscapes this earth using fire and ice.  Once upon a time the land mass on the earth was a single body surrounded by water.  That was boring after a time.  So God began to landscape using the giant tectonic plates upon which the land mass sits.  The huge plates were set in motion going in different directions.  Their movement divided the land into the continents we see today.  Beneath the crust of the earth and the mantle spins a metallic iron core which creates the earth’s magnetic field.  This iron furnace is so hot that it churns out new metals and chemicals and melts rock into magma.  Where the plate boundaries exit there are gaps that spew out hot molten lava in eruptions.  Multiple eruptions have resulted in the creation along plate boundaries.  These form volcanoes in the land and in the sea.  Sea volcanoes get to high that they create islands. Like those in the Caribbean and in the Pacific Ocean such as the Hawaiian Islands.  That is one way.

God also uses ice to further sculpt the land mass.  Today we can find ice concentrated at the polar regions and on the peaks of high mountains.  Sometimes God has used ice ages to cover the land mass.  Very slowly He warmed the earth caused the ice to retreat. Then He cooled it again and reformed the ice pack.  This freezing and thawing and ice movement grinds rocks and boulders and scratches grooves in the land.  This results in hills and valley and beds for rivers caused by the thawing ice. 

This is how God landscapes over time.  This is a very slow process. The continents are in motion right now and stress and pressure activity result in the earthquake we experience today.  So now you know more about what God is doing.  An earthquake means He is just landscaping!

Glorify God!

God did it!