“INVENTIONS!”

Me-Maw Thoughts

Number 730

April 8, 2025///

Yesterday early morning I got a weather alert on my phone. A tornado was in the area!

I tuned into a local news station on my computer and watched as specific streets were named where the rotation was, and times were projected for when this turmoil would reach different towns.

As I was praying for protection, I was also very aware of the giant steps technology and inventions have taken since I was a child and before!

Lives are saved because we are now able to track storms down to the very second!

Look back at transportation. We get into our cars and turn the key, and it begins to run. Some of you do not even need a key, you push a button on a little pod in your hand and your car cranks before you get in!

Before this, cars had to be cranked by turning a handle in the front of the car and before that there were horses and buggies.

We go to ATM’s and withdraw money or even make deposits over our phones!

We have cell phones, computers, Fitbit watches, Bluetooth phone connections and electricity to power or charge all of it!

We are blessed with electricity that powers so much of our lives.

We can talk or what is called facetime with those down the street, someone thousands of miles away or in a totally different country!

We can buy things by swiping a card and technology has made it possible to shop for anything from toothpaste to cars and houses online! The internet is an amazing door to both bad and good but was invented or discovered to be used for good!

Consider washers, dishwashers, hot and cold running water and central heat and air!

And a man has stepped on the moon!

There are heart and kidney transplants and medical knowledge that defies logic!

I could continue but I want to point out the reason we have all these awesome conveniences and amazing things in our lives!

Whether the inventers or discoverers honor God or not, all creations, inventions, and great ideas, come from Him!

Jesus was God’s love letter in the flesh sent to show us how much He Loves us!

Jesus was from the beginning with God and was a part of creation. We are never more like Jesus than when we are being creative, whether in our homes, our workplace, with music, writing, or an unfathomable number of other things!

You were created to create! All good things come from God above who spoke everything we see into existence!

People may take credit for their knowledge, wisdom, and ideas, but it originates with the Creator God!

Look at these two scriptures of many in God’s Word!

1 Corinthians 2:16 (KJV 1900)

For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? BUT WE HAVE THE MIND OF CHRIST.

Philippians 2:5 (KJV 1900)

LET THIS MIND BE IN YOU, WHICH WAS ALSO IN CHRIST JESUS:

What a promise to those who believe. We can have ideas, direction, and the courage to do what seems impossible as we realize we are created with a spirit of creativity in us!

Some who have invented or discovered do not acknowledge God, but some do. Some understand all knowledge comes from the Creator God.

I challenge each of us today to begin to let the creator of the universe stir up the creative ideas and abilities and talents within us!

A mother came up with vegetables as characters to entertain and teach her children, and the “Vegie Tales” were born. These videos have cemented the principles of God’s word in children everywhere!

I am grateful for every invention or ideas that makes our life easier, but I am more grateful for a God who created each of us with a creative spirit. May we open our hearts to the creativity God has placed in us!

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Father, In Jesus’ name I come with a grateful heart that we were created on purpose and for a purpose and you have put a creative spirit in each of us. May we let you lead us to use it to its fullest! Nothing is impossible for you! Amen!

Love, MeMaw!