Our Cool God

God is so cool! Have you ever thought of Him as being cool? Do you think that's irreverent? I don't. I think He is SO cool! Psalm 147:4 says, "He counts the number of the stars; He gives names to all of them." Have you ever read any statistics on how many stars there are? Well, I'm not going to give them to you, but there are LOTS!!! Far more than my little pea brain can begin to fathom! Yet, He gives names to all of them. Now, why do we name things? It's usually because it's something dear to us, like your child or your pet. I have no children, but I was very picky about the names I chose for my two cats. And I still love their names. And, I keep coming up with new ones. Percy has a BEAUTIFUL belly! It's all white and he has long fur, so I LOVE to rub his tummy. Hence, the nickname 'Sir Beautiful Belly.' (among others)

Yet, even though He created ALL the animals, He let Adam name them. Is that cool or what? Yup, Genesis 2:19 says, "Out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field and every bird of the sky, and brought them to the man to see what he would call them; and whatever the man called a living creature, that was its name." Now, God formed them, so it's 'only fair' that HE would name them, right? True, yet He relinquished that privilege to the first Adam, whom He also created. Don't tell me God isn't cool! And there's no record He ever changed those names. We're still living with those names to this day. Hmmm...hadn't thought of it before, but that makes those names part of Adam's inheritance, doesn't it? He got to do something eternal, right off the bat! Guess what...so can we. Think about something you can do in the next 24 hours that will be eternal. God put His very own creativity within us and His own eternality (minus deity). Yes, God is WAY COOL! ;)