God Made Me, a Crucial Concept for the Citizens of the World
Wiggle your fingers. That’s what the leaves were doing on our maple tree when we got home from church yesterday. A tree with colorful wiggling leaves is one of my favorite sights in the fall.
I had already been looking for and thinking about fall leaves while we were driving home. Seeing them wiggle in our own front yard was a sweet gift.
I was also thinking about a board book I used to read to our babies—God Made All the Colors. As I turned the pages, our children learned from a green caterpillar who wore a straw hat with red ribbon trim. The caterpillar told of God making red flowers we can smell, yellow sand we can feel, blue sky we can see, green apples we can taste, and brown birds we can hear. On the final page, God has transformed the caterpillar into a butterfly which told our children: “God made me.”
I like the way the book makes a connection between the colors we see and our other senses. Fall is a wonderful time to see what God has planned for us to see in His Creation. I’m so glad you and your children get to do that together.
For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes,
that is, His eternal power and divine nature,
have been clearly perceived,
being understood by what has been made . . .Â
Romans 1:20a
Each day you are teaching your children a crucial concept that the citizens of the world desperately need. Each person needs to know the simple—and profound—truth that “God made me.” That truth reveals to us that He is the Maker and we are the made. Only a wise and powerful Being could make us amazing people. The fact that He made us tells us that He understands us better than we understand ourselves and that brings comfort. Knowing that He made us assures us that we have great value.
When we also learn that He has revealed His will in His Word and that He has sent His Son to take care of our sins, we find out that we can have peace, that we can live our lives here with confidence, and that we can live with Him forever. The citizens of the world desperately need that message, too.
In the beginning was the Word,
and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. . . .Â
 In Him was life, and the life was the Light of mankind. . . .Â
. . . as many as received Him,
to them He gave the right to become children of God,
to those who believe in His name,
who were born, not of blood,
nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of a man,
but of God.
John 1:1, 4, 12-13
