Reflection for April 22

For Earth Day
A reflection on Job 40:19b (God speaking to Job and us about the creation of Behemoth, thought to be a present-day hippopotamus) – Only, I, its Maker can approach it with the sword. Only I have the authority to destroy this work of art—I alone. I say this to you not to tell you I am going to destroy it. I say this to tell you: Put down your arrow and gun. Don’t be so foolish as to think that you are powerful because you are able to destroy what I have created. Real power, after all, belongs to the Maker, not the destroyer. This living work of art—this grand expression of my creativity—belongs to me, its Creator, alone (Calvin B. DeWitt, “Behold the hippo,” Christian Century, April 18, 2012).