The Artworks of Heaven

One of my favorite things to do is to look, really look, up close at a snowflake. It is so unique and beautiful. Wilson A. Bentley made this discovery that no two snowflakes are alike. In 1885 he used a microscope and camera to photograph a single snowflake. He captured more than 5,000 snowflake pictures in his lifetime and never saw two snowflakes that were the same. He said, “Under the microscope, I found that snowflakes were miracles of beauty; and it seemed a shame that this beauty should not be seen and appreciated by others. Every crystal was a masterpiece of design and no one design was ever repeated. When a snowflake melted, that design was forever lost. Just that much beauty was gone, without leaving any record behind.”

Billions of flowers, every one different. Billions of stars, no two alike. Billions of snowflakes and each one unique! Snowflakes are a wonder of creation. They are the artwork of the heavens. So, of course, God created each of us to be unique! "Each one began as a tiny droplet of moisture high in the earth’s atmosphere. A small sheath of ice formed around it until it became a crystal of ice. As these tiny crystals blew around like dust in the clouds, they grew in size and became heavy enough to tumble out of the cloud. They naturally form six sides or branches. Some are perfectly shaped; but many of them, while tumbling through the atmosphere, become irregular, unsymmetrical, disjointed, and odd." But they are a one of a kind masterpiece!

Each one of us is a masterpiece of God's creation and our molds are broken. I am the only me and you are the only you - EVER! Ephesians 2: 10, "For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do." We are very special to Jesus. Only we can be the person Jesus created us to be. Psalm 139:14, "I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well." A snowflake adds beauty and shows off God's Handiworks. Matthew 5: 16, "In the same way, let your light shine before others, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your Father in heaven." If we live for Jesus, others will see Jesus in us.