This week, many people of our planet will be observing "Earth Day" (April 22). Concurrent with this celebration of Earth is the much-anticipated release of the Disney film of the same name, "Earth."

I recommend that you see "Earth" at the theater. And I implore you to ask yourself one simple question while you are enjoying the truly breath-taking scenery and all the creatures featured in the movie... "Who created all these?"

"The fear and dread of you will fall upon all the beasts of the earth and all the birds of the air, upon every creature that moves along the ground, and upon all the fish of the sea; they are given into your hands (Genesis 9:2).

Occasionally Christ will allow us to come into close contact with His creation. In this way, He sweetly demonstrates that He truly is the Prince of Peace. What a foretaste of Heaven!

"When man was made perfect, and placed in a perfect world, where all things were in perfect order, the whole creation was then man's book, in which he was to read the nature and will of his great Creator. Every creature had the name of God so legibly engraven on it, that man might run and read it. He could not open his eyes, but he might see some image of God; but no where so fully and lively as in himself. It was, therefore, his work to study the whole volume of nature, but first and most to study himself.

Your name and renown are the desire of our hearts (Isaiah 26:8b).

This is a photo of a thawing Colorado pond (taken March 2, 2009). It may lack summer green, but it should remind us that our Lord Jesus is very faithful and He reveals His faithfulness throughout creation in so many wonderful ways.

It won't be long before the air above this pond will be filled with dancing dragonflies and the winsome sounds of Boreal Chorus Frogs bringing glory to their amazing Creator!