STUDY ARTICLE 12
Use Creation to Learn More About Jehovah
“His invisible qualities are clearly seen from the world’s creation onward, because they are perceived by the things made.”—ROM. 1:20.
SONG 6 The Heavens Declare God’s Glory
WETIN WE COMING LEARN? a
1. What one way that help Job to learn about Jehovah better?
JOB talk with plenty people when he was living. But the most important one was the time he talk with Jehovah. Jehovah told Job to look at some of the wonderful thing them he made. So that Job can know that He wise and also to help Job to get more trust that He able to provide for all his servants. For example, Jehovah help Job to see that he able to provide for the animals, so He can also take care of Job. (Job 38:39-41; 39:1, 5, 13-16) So from the examples about creation, Job learn plenty thing them about Jehovah qualities.
2. Why it can be hard sometime to study thing them Jehovah made?
2 We too can learn more about Jehovah when we take the time to look at the thing them he made. But it can’t always be easy do this one. If we living in the city, we will not be able to see plenty things that Jehovah made every day. Even if we living in the interior, sometime we can feel that we not get enough time to study them. So let talk about why it good to take the time and try hard to look at the thing them Jehovah made. We will learn how Jehovah and Jesus use creation to teach, and wetin we can do to learn more from creation.
WHY WE MUST LOOK AT THE THING THEM JEHOVAH MADE?
3. Wetin show that Jehovah wanted Adam to enjoy creation?
3 Jehovah wanted Adam to enjoy the thing them He made. When God made Adam, He gave him the beautiful paradise to live in. He also gave him the work to take care of it and make it big. (Gen. 2:8, 9, 15) Just imagine how Adam was happy when he saw different-different seeds growing and producing flowers. That was not small privilege Adam was having to take care of the garden of Eden! Jehovah also told Adam to name the different-different animal them. (Gen. 2:19, 20) Jehovah was able to name the animal them, but he not do it. He gave that work to Adam. Before Adam name the animal them, he took his own time to study them good-good. He study the way they were looking and their behavior. Adam really enjoy doing this work. This work help him to see how Jehovah wise and how the thing them he made really beautiful and interesting.
4. (a) Give one reason why we must study creation? (b) Among the thing them Jehovah made, which one you really like?
4 One reason why we must study creation that because Jehovah want us to do it. He tell us to look at the heaven and see. Then he ask us: “Who made this thing them?” The answer clear. (Isa. 40:26) Jehovah made plenty wonderful thing them in heaven, on earth and in the sea that can teach us about him. (Ps. 104:24, 25) And just think about the way God made us. He make it possible for us to enjoy looking at the beautiful thing them he made. He also made us to see, hear, touch, taste and smell. This five senses can help us to enjoy all the different-different thing them he made.
5. How Romans 1:20 show that we can benefit when we study Jehovah creation?
5 The Bible show another important reason why we must study creation. It can teach us about Jehovah quality them. (Read Romans 1:20.) For example, look at the thing them Jehovah made and see how he really design them. It show us that Jehovah really wise. And just think about the different-different food we can enjoy. This one that clear proof that Jehovah love us. When we see Jehovah quality them in the thing them he made, it can help us to know him good-good and get closer to him. Now, yor let look at some of the ways Jehovah na use creation to teach people important lessons.
GOD CAN USE CREATION TO TEACH US ABOUT HIMSELF
6. What lesson we can learn from the bird them when they moving from place to place?
6 Jehovah get set time to do things. Every year between the end of February and the middle part of May, the Israelites use to see some birds they call storks flying to go to the north. God told the Israelites, ‘The stork in the sky know their seasons.’ (Jer. 8:7) The same way Jehovah set time for this bird them to fly from one place to the other, that the same way Jehovah set time to destroy this wicked world. Today when we see the bird them flying from place to place, they can remind us that Jehovah na set special time to destroy this wicked world.—Hab. 2:3.
7. Wetin we can learn from the way the eagle can fly? (Isaiah 40:31)
7 Jehovah can give his people power. Jehovah promise his people through Isaiah that when they feeling weak or discourage he will give them the strength to fly like eagles. (Read Isaiah 40:31.) The Israelites were use to seeing eagles flying in the sky without using their wings too much. That the force from the air use to help them to do it. This one remind us that Jehovah can give us power the same way he can give the eagles power! So, when you see one big bird flying way up in the sky without using the wing too much, remember that Jehovah can give you strength to go through your problems.
8. Wetin Job learn from thinking about Jehovah creation, and wetin we can we learn too?
8 Jehovah deserve our trust. Jehovah help Job to trust in Him more. (Job 32:2; 40:6-8) When Jehovah was talking with Job, He talk about plenty of his creation them like the stars, the clouds, and the lightning. Jehovah also talk about the animal them like, bush cow and the horse. (Job 38:32-35; 39:9, 19, 20) All this thing them proof that Jehovah get great power, love and wisdom. Job learn to trust Jehovah more because of what Jehovah told him. (Job 42:1-6) That the same way when we study about creation, it will remind us that Jehovah get power and wisdom more than any of us. And he able to end all our problem them and he will do it. This one can help us to trust him more.
JESUS USE CREATION TO TEACH US ABOUT HIS PA
9-10. Wetin we can learn about Jehovah from the sun and the rain?
9 Jesus knew plenty things about creation. When his pa was creating the heavens and the earth, he work with Him. (Prov. 8:30) Later on, when Jesus was on earth, he use creation to teach his disciple them about his pa. Let see some of the lesson them he use to teach.
10 Jehovah can show love to everybody. In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus talk to his disciples about the sun and the rain that people can’t take to be too important. But this two thing them important for us to live. If Jehovah wanted to, he was not coming give this thing them to people who not want serve him. But he show love by giving the rain and the sun for everybody. (Matt. 5:43-45) Jesus use this lesson to teach his disciples that Jehovah want us to show love to everybody. When the sun going down, we can enjoy the way it can be looking so fine. And when the rain falling, it can make us feel good. Anytime we see this thing them happening, we must think on the love Jehovah get for everybody. His example can make us to show the same kind na love by preaching to everybody.
11. How looking at the bird them can encourage us?
11 Jehovah can provide the thing them we need to live. In the same sermon, Jesus also said: “Look at the bird them good-good, they can’t plant or harvest or build kitchen to keep food inside, but your heavenly Father can feed them.” Maybe the people were looking at the bird them flying when Jesus ask them: “You not think you better more than the bird them?” (Matt. 6:26) Jesus show love by helping us to see that Jehovah will give us the thing them we need to live! (Matt. 6:31, 32) What we learn from this example about creation can always encourage Jehovah faithful servants. One young pioneer sister in Spain was feeling discourage because it was hard for her to find good place to live. But after she saw the bird them eating seeds and fruits, it make her heart to lay down. She say, “The bird them help me to remember that Jehovah was taking care of them and he will take care of me too.” And for sure, it not stay long the sister find good place to live.
12. According to Matthew 10:29-31, wetin we can learn about Jehovah from the sparrows?
12 Jehovah value us one by one. Before Jesus send his apostle them to preach, he help them to not be scare of people who will go against them. (Read Matthew 10:29-31.) He do it by telling them about one bird plenty people in Israel knew. They call it sparrow. This bird them were not having any value in Jesus time. But he told his disciples: “Jehovah can know when one of them fall down on the ground.” Then he say: “You better more than plenty sparrows.” Jesus was encouraging his disciples that Jehovah value them one by one, so they must not be scare of persecution. When the disciples use to be preaching in the town and village them, we sure they use to remember what Jesus told them when they saw the sparrows. Anytime you see one small bird, remember that Jehovah value your self-self because you “better more than plenty sparrows.” So, don’t be scare when people go against you.—Ps. 118:6.
HOW CREATION CAN TEACH US MORE ABOUT JEHOVAH?
13. Wetin will help us to learn from creation?
13 We can learn plenty other lessons about Jehovah from creation. How? First, we must find time to study about creation. From there, we must think on what we learn about Jehovah. It will not always be easy to do this thing them. One sister from Cameroon, name Géraldine, say, “Because I grew up in the city, I use to really fight hard to learn from creation.” One elder name Alfonso say, “I find out that to learn from Jehovah creation and really think on what I learn about him, I needed to make schedule and be alone.”
14. Wetin David learn when he think good-good about Jehovah creation?
14 David use to think good-good about Jehovah creation. He told Jehovah: “When I see your heavens, the thing them you made like the moon and the stars, human being that what for you to think about?” (Ps. 8:3, 4) Yes, when David use to look at the sky in night, he not only use to enjoy looking at them. But he also use to really think on what the stars teach him about God. He learn that Jehovah really great. Sometime, David use to think about how his body grow small-small in his ma stomach, and he got to know that it was really wonderful. When he think on the wonderful way Jehovah made him, it make him to be more grateful for Jehovah wisdom.—Ps. 139:14-17.
15. Give examples about how creation can help us to know Jehovah good-good. (Psalm 148:7-10)
15 Like David, it easy for us to find something about Jehovah creation that we can think on good. If you look around, you can see plenty things that can help us to know Jehovah good-good. For example, when you feel the sun on your skin, you can know that Jehovah get power. (Jer. 31:35) When you see the bird them building their house, you can know that Jehovah wise. When you see the baby dog trying to catch it own tail, you can know that Jehovah like funny things. And tell Jehovah thank you for his love when you see the baby ma playing with her baby. We get plenty opportunities to learn about Jehovah because all his creation, whether they big and small or they near us or far off, they can praise him.—Read Psalm 148:7-10.
16. Wetin we must fight hard to do?
16 Our God very powerful, wise, loving, and everything he make really fine. If we take our time and look at creation, we can learn about all this quality them and plenty other things. So, we must always find time to enjoy creation and think about what we can learn about Jehovah. When we do it, our friendship with Jehovah will be thick. (Jas. 4:8) In the next article, we will see how parents can use creation to help their children get close to Jehovah.
SONG 5 God’s Wondrous Works
a The thing them Jehovah made really wonderful. It can really full our mouth when we see the power the sun get and the way the flowers can be beautiful. The thing them Jehovah made can also teach us about Jehovah qualities. In this article, we will talk about why we must find time to learn about creation. And also we will learn how when we do it, it will help us get more close to our God.