I Told You So

I hate to say it, but I told you so. As another Monday rolls around, it’s hot. I truly love spring, but it was cold. I told you it was going to go from cold to hot—and it did.

Suddenly, we have a lot of activity planned for the summer. My wife’s brother from Hagerstown, Maryland, is coming—a visit he had promised for six years. He, his wife, and son. My son and his wife, and probably their son, are coming from Bloomington, Illinois. My granddaughter and her husband from Madison, Wisconsin, will be coming in the summer or fall.

My daughter from Atlanta will probably come this fall, so you can see things are suddenly getting busy. My son and I always had a saying: we hate to see the corn come up, because then it’s Christmas. The Fourth of July corn will be knee-high, then comes harvest, Thanksgiving, and Christmas.

I’ve been thinking about how many of us could tell what God created in each of the six days. The first day was light. In fact, more than light—it was all forms of energy. Everything was absolute zero—no movement of any kind, everything completely dark. Scientists have created absolute zero, which is -273° Fahrenheit. On the first day, God also created day and night, and that was the first day.

On the third day, God created vegetation—plants and trees. Everything was in progression. On the fifth day, God created the animals. It would not have been good to create the animals before the vegetation, because we would have had some hungry cows. On the sixth day, He created Adam and Eve and put them in the Garden of Eden. And on the seventh day, He rested.

But trouble soon started, because Genesis 3:15 says, “You will fight with the devil. He will bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel.” In chapter 4 were the first two brothers—and one killed the other. Can you imagine the tragedy of having two sons, and one kills the other?

As I was thinking about these two ideas, something in the West Bend News jumped out at me. Pastor Dwayne said, “We were chosen before the foundation of the world.” Before the world was made, there was nothing—yet God had us in mind. Then Richard Mastin stated that God created man, and then He created woman, and gave each specific parts to play in life.

Genesis 2 says that God created man, and then He created woman out of man. I’ll leave that topic to someone smarter than I. In chapter 4 it says women will have pain in childbirth. This is something we men cannot imagine, nor can we understand the influence of a mother.

—James Neuhouser