Dear Brethren,   

We are reminded each Sabbath of the awesomeness of the Creation.  God made the earth in six days and rested on the 7th day and made it holy.

The more we know about the creation, the harder it is to understand how anyone can believe it "evolved".  I was sent a small example of God's awesome creation.

The ichneumon wasp (Thalessa) looks so delicate that the slightest wind ought to blow it over. Yet it lands on a hard tree trunk, and begins thumping with something that looks as delicate and frail as the leg of a daddy longlegs. But that antennae, thinner than a human hair, happens to be a high-power extension drill. 

The drill is about 41/2 inches [11.43 cm] long, so long and so thin and delicate that it curves up and down as the small insect thumps on the hardwood with it. After thumping for a time, the tiny creature somehow knows it has found the right place to start work. Drilling begins. This little wasp uses that delicate feeler to cut its way down through several inches of solid, hard oak wood! This is totally unexplainable. Scientists have tried to solve the puzzle, but without success. 

The second miracle is what the wasp is drilling for: the larvae of a special beetle. How can it possibly know where to start its drill, so as to go straight down (it always drills straight down)and reach the beetle larva? Scientists cannot figure this out either. Somehow the initial thumping told the tiny insect that a grub was several inches down, and that it was the kind of larva it was looking for. The ichneumon wasp lays its eggs on just one larva, that of the Tremex. When those eggs hatch, they will have food to grow on. Then, before they grow too large, tiny ichneumon wasps come out through that original hole. When they grow up, without any instruction from their parents, they know exactly what to do. They start thumping.

Evolution could not do something this amazing.  And this is just one small part of God's wondrous creation.

Hope you have a wonderful Sabbath and that you'll take time to find beauty in the awesomeness of God's creation.

Looking forward to seeing those of you in Cedar Rapids tomorrow.  

Have a blessed Sabbath, 

Dave

Scriptures to Read:

For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse  (Romans 1:20).