The Creatures

Welcome to my fourth blog on creation, a combination of images from my trusty phone camera and words from the Maker’s manual. Hope you enjoy it!

And God said, “Let the waters swarm with swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the heavens.”

Genesis 1.20

(Jesus)…do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of life? 

Matthew 6.25-27

Who teaches us more than he teaches the beasts of the earth and makes us wiser than the birds in the sky?’

Job 35.11

The righteous care for the needs of their animals, but the kindest acts of the wicked are cruel.

Proverbs 12.10

Then God said, “Let the earth bring forth living creatures after their kind: cattle … and beasts of the earth after their kind”; and it was so.

Genesis 1.24

And Jesus said to him, “Foxes have holes, and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head.”

Matthew 8.20

Some trust in… horses, but we trust in the name of the Lord our God.

Psalm 20.7

Then God said, “Let the earth bring forth living creatures after their kind: …creeping things and beasts of the earth after their kind”; and it was so.

Genesis 1.24

Horses have bits and bridles in their mouths so that we can control and guide their large body. And so the tongue is a small part of the body yet it carries great power.

James 3.3,5

What is man that you are mindful of him, and the son of man that you care for him? Yet you have made him a little lower than the heavenly beings and crowned him with glory and honor. You have given him dominion over the works of your hands; you have put all things under his feet, all sheep and oxen, and also the beasts of the field, the birds of the heavens, and the fish of the sea, whatever passes along the paths of the seas.

Psalm 8.4-8

All the nations will be gathered in [God’s] presence, and He will separate the people as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. He will place the sheep at his right hand and the goats at his left.

 “Then the King will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father, inherit the Kingdom prepared for you from the creation of the world. For I was hungry, and you fed me. I was thirsty, and you gave me a drink. I was a stranger, and you invited me into your home. I was naked, and you gave me clothing. I was sick, and you cared for me. I was in prison, and you visited me.’

Matthew 25.32ff

After (the younger son) had spent everything, there was a severe famine in that whole country, and he began to be in need.So he went and hired himself out to a citizen of that country, who sent him to his fields to feed pigs.He longed to fill his stomach with the pods that the pigs were eating, but no one gave him anything. When he came to his senses, he  he got up and went to his father… while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and was filled with compassion for him; he ran to his son, threw his arms around him and kissed him. …the father said to his servants, ‘Quick! Let’s have a feast and celebrate. For this son of mine was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found.’ So they began to celebrate.

Luke 15

We all, like sheep, have gone astray, each of us has turned to our own way; and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all.

Isaiah 53.6

For all the animals of the forest are mine, and I own the cattle on a thousand hills

Psalm 50.10

So he told them this parable: “What man of you, having a hundred sheep, if he has lost one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the open country, and go after the one that is lost, until he finds it? And when he has found it, he lays it on his shoulders, rejoicing. And when he comes home, he calls together his friends and his neighbors, saying to them, ‘Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep that was lost.’ Just so, I tell you, there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who need no repentance.

Luke 15.3-7

All kinds of animals, birds, reptiles and sea creatures are being tamed and have been tamed by mankind, but no human being can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison.

James 3.7,8

…it is not possible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins… For God’s will was for us to be made holy by the sacrifice of the body of Jesus Christ, once for all time.

Hebrews 10.4,10

Then [the King] will say to those on his left (goats), ‘Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. For I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink, I was a stranger and you did not invite me in, I needed clothes and you did not clothe me, I was sick and in prison and you did not look after me.’

Matthew 25.41-43

Whoever is righteous has regard for the life of his beast, but the mercy of the wicked is cruel.

Proverbs 12.10

So the Lord God formed from the ground all the wild animals and all the birds of the sky. He brought them to the man to see what he would call them, and the man chose a name for each one. He gave names to all the livestock, all the birds of the sky, and all the wild animals.

Genesis 2.19,20