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God's Blessing in Each of Us


I am not a scientist; I am a theologian, a master of things divine, or so my degree states. I love seeing God’s handiwork all around me. Every day, even several times a day, I encounter God in the simplest activities.
I believe that God created life and blessed it. Think about it. The DNA, which to my understanding holds the key to our lives, our hereditary traits in just a few elements of code. All life, maybe there is an exception, contains DNA and when we look at that of a banana or that of a human, they are not that different. All life possesses this remarkable code. (Bill Bryson)
I believe that all life is of God and that God knew us in the womb and guides our DNA, if you will, as we delve into any aspect of life. God is with us – guiding us. I do not know how. But what I do know, or maybe it would be better to stick to what I believe, is that God made all of creation. (Genesis 1-2)
Since God made all creation, God should be guiding us as we interact with each other, all created matter, and well, for that matter, how we interact with ourselves. I believe that when God guided the Israelites to understand God as the One God, the God alone, that we as God’s people are wildly blessed. (Deuteronomy 6:4) And because of that incredible blessing that we have received it would behoove us to recognize God’s blessing in others.
God wants us to seek after God. (Proverbs 25:2) God wants us to respect, care, and even love each other and all of creation as only God would imagine it. We are to act, to think and act in a way that follows the blessing that we have received from God.   

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