At home sometimes we play a music channel while we do chores etc. On one particular day I happened to notice the background for the music channel that was playing and the scene was breath taking.
In the background were these majestic mountains and someone apparently laying on their back and taking in all this amazing beauty of creation, because in the foreground was a pair of feet with hiking boots on pointed to the sky.
The sky above was rich blue with billowing white clouds dispersed in it and these amazing mountains in the background. I thought to myself what an amazing creation of God.
It was then that the Holy Spirit broke in on my thought and said, "If you think that is amazing just open your eyes each day you walk out your door. Every time that you look at another human being you are beholding the greatest work in all creation. Nothing in creation exceeds the handiwork of God revealed in mankind."
I began to think of how devalued mankind had become in my own heart. I was reminded how that in the gospel mankind is not a devalued creation at all. The Creator Himself came to earth to redeem mankind, to reconcile the crown of creation to Himself. This most beautiful and marvelous aspect of creation has been marred by the fall and Christ came to reclaim it.
Through the gospel I want to have a different motivation towards men. I want to stand in awe of what God originally made and have my heart ache as His does over the distortion of it that took place in the fall. I want the gospel to produce in me a fresh desire to see this crown of creation restored in newness of life to the One who made it.
May God grant us even more boldness to proclaim His word to those we encounter each day as we go about our lives.
May He open up the riches of His grace and truth to our hearts not so we could hoard them for ourselves but so we might know the abundance of His generosity and shed our spiritual poverty realizing we have more than enough to give to others simply because we are in Christ.
May we begin to see our world through the eyes of a kingdom driven heart and may His presence ignite us to be His all the time.
About The Author
- Tim Atchley
- Knoxville, Tennessee, United States
- I currently serve as Senior Pastor of Harvest Church in Knoxville, Tn. I was sent out from Trinity Chapel of Knoxville in 1993 accompanied by my wife Sheila our four children Sarah, Hannah, Josiah & Isaac and a handful of bold, brave and committed believers determined to plant our first church. Pioneering is hard work but well worth the journey. That is why we desire to make disciples of Christ who will, like us, also embrace the call to plant churches.
