God treat[s] His Creation with integrity: each thing in its own order, each thing the way He made it... If God treats the tree like a tree, the machine like a machine and the man like a man, shouldn't I, as a fellow-creature, treat the machine like a machine, the man like a man, the plant like a plant—each thing in integrity in its own order? And for the highest reason: because I love God—I love the One who has made it! Loving the Lover who has made it, I should have respect for the thing He has made. —Francis Schaeffer in Pollution and the Death of Man. Christianity Today, Vol. 42, no. 10. - Today's Best Illustrations – Volume 5.
Genesis 1:1 (NKJV) In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
Nehemiah 9:6 (NKJV) You alone are the LORD; You have made heaven, The heaven of heavens, with all their host, The earth and everything on it, The seas and all that is in them, And You preserve them all. The host of heaven worships You.
Job 9:8-10 (NKJV) 8 He alone spreads out the heavens, And treads on the waves of the sea; 9 He made the Bear, Orion, and the Pleiades, And the chambers of the south; 10 He does great things past finding out, Yes, wonders without number.
Psalm 146:5-7 (NKJV) 5 Happy is he who has the God of Jacob for his help, Whose hope is in the LORD his God, 6 Who made heaven and earth, The sea, and all that is in them; Who keeps truth forever, 7 Who executes justice for the oppressed, Who gives food to the hungry. The LORD gives freedom to the prisoners.
