Amazing Creatures

in Thoughts  by Jinha Kim 2 comments

God has created a truly diverse and amazing world.  On Saturday I shared about the Japanese puffer fish that creates complex and beautiful sand art on the sea floor to attract a female using only its fin.  

Another creature that astounds me with their innate skills is the tailorbird.

Male tailorbirds are master seamsters; they poke a series of holes along the edge of a leaf with their long slender bill and then draw plant fibre, insect silk, or even household thread through the holes to form separate loops, which they then knot on the outside.  Tailorbirds also sing complex melodies.

Beavers are well-known for their engineering skills; they fell and gnaw trees, build dams, create massive log, branch and mud structures and burrows to transform any space into a comfortable home.  They can remain underwater for 15 minutes without surfacing and have a set of transparent eyelids that function like goggles.  Their fur is waterproof and they use their paddle-shaped tails and webbed feet to swim gracefully in the water.  They also produce an oil called castoreum, which they use to mark territories.  Some people think it smells like vanilla. 

Every day my two-year-old asks me, “Lion?”  hoping I will take him to the zoo.  On Sunday I could finally take him and when we drove into the parking lot, he squealed, “Animals!!  Thank you, mummy!”  We looked at lions, tigers, elephants, giraffes, and orang-utans.  We happened to be at the elephant park while a zookeeper shared facts about the elephants, and I learned that an elephant’s trunk contains over 40,000 muscles, divided into as many as 150,000 individual units.  The entire human body only contains 639 muscles, so the elephant trunk is quite an intricate appendage. 

When I see the beautiful, weird, amazing creatures I see a Designer who loves beauty, diversity and creativity.  

“Just ask the animals, and they will teach you.

Ask the birds of the sky, and they will tell you.

Speak to the earth, and it will instruct you.

Let the fish in the sea speak to you.

For they all know . . . 

For the life of every living thing is in His hand,

and the breath of every human being.” Job 12:7-10 (NLT)

As we take care of God’s creation, may we see how truly amazing our Creator is. 

by: Jinha Kim

"But those who drink the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life." John 4:14