Nature’s Testimony by Dr. Walter L. Wilson
T h e remarkable transformations that take place in nature are worthy of careful attention and consideration. They reveal again the fact that there is a personal, living God Who alone can produce such miracles. As an example, consider the caterpillar. It is actually an “upholstered” worm. It makes no effort to fly but is content with crawl ing. One day this peculiar creature begins to weave a coffin around itself beginning at the rear end and weaving forward. It encloses itself completely in a casket that is water proof, sun proof, heat proof, light proof and unsinkable. Through the terrible cold of the win ter it remains enclosed in its little warm house. When the springtime comes, a ragged hole appears in one end of this casket. Soon there emerges not the worm that entered with its yellow hair and its many feet but a beautiful brilliantly colored butterfly. It has a peculiar tongue with which it draws up the nectar from the flowers. Only God could bring about such a great change. How does the butterfly get out of that cocoon? What became of all its other legs? Where did the hair go? The God who can accomplish this wonderful miracle can transform your life and make it complete, lacking nothing, if you will only commit your self to Him today. Then consider the mineral kingdom. Opals are dug from the deep recesses of the earth. God takes a handful of sand, buries it deeply in the ground, puts a terrific heat beneath it and a tremendous weight above it, and the transformation is the lovely opal. The
opal really has no color of its own. It has the unusual ability to radiate the various colors from the sunbeams which causes it to flash fire. Only God can make an opal, and only God can make you reflect the beauties, glories and loveliness of Christ the Lord. The sapphire is another beautiful stone. It is made from clay. But what a tremendous metamorphosis takes place. This is what God wants to do with your life as well (Romans 12:1, FOR ALL THE DAY Those moments that I spent with God When I began the day with prayer, Gave me the strength I needed when A burden came for me to bear. I met resentment with a smile, I checked the words that would have grieved, I helped a weary one and so Passed on the help I had received. M y tasks I found were lightened too. Peace came, a healing, soothing balm, The problems of the day were met And evening found me poised and calm. — Della Adams Leitner 2). The same is true with another popular stone, the diamond. Nobody could change meaningless black carbon into a substance of such extreme value and worth. So, let the Lord have your life, and He will make you what He wants you to be: a beautiful testi mony for Christ Jesus, a good Am bassador for the Lord, a lovely Chris tian, and a blessing to all 17
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