God's Bugs

©7/10 Angela Beatty

Leviticus 11:4

There is a law of the beast,

and of the fowl, and of

every living creature that

moveth in the waters, and of

every creature that

creepeth upon the earth.

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God obviously didn't ask my opinion on the matter. If it were left up to me there would be no creepy crawly creatures on the face of the earth - especially the variety that bite humans! But the truth is that every creature plays a role in a finely balanced ecosystem and all have a purpose in God's plan.

Yesterday I took the kids into the backyard to show them my recent discovery of a grapevine with grapes growing on it and we also discovered this giant beetle. Of course it was a big deal! This thing that looks like a faded lady bug was several inches long and had eaten quite a chunk out of the leaf it was sitting on.

But guess what. In the real world, we all have a few things or people in life that bug us to no end. And it's easy to forget that God has a plan for even our worst enemies! He really does.

In my work in the Christian school I discovered that it's not the good students who made me a better teacher or principal - it was the students who had me ready to pull my hair out that forced me to find solutions. Any educator would prefer a room full of perfect students, but then we'd never be really good at what we do would we? God really does do all things well.