Design

Can’t you see God?

Are you blind?

Can’t you see His signature?

Are you out of your mind?

Are you for real?

You can’t really be serious,

To say there’s no proof

Is more than contemptuous.

Let’s take a look at design

It is all around,

Throughout the universe

Design just abounds.

There’s design in the plants

Design in the animals

Design in the skies

And design in people

Design in appearances

Design in behaviour

Design in diversities

Design is God’s favour

There are no two alike

Yet there are common threads,

All point to the Creator

Much more can be said.

Something stops the sea

As it charges to the shore,

Design brings it in

And sends it out once more.

It’s designed for that action

Like the customs of man,

To get the best of life

We design specific plans.

We copied this from God

Though we don’t admit it,

Having been made in His image

Design is our habit.

With the animals it’s consistent

With humans it varies,

The sparrow’s nest is fixed

But in humans there’s variety.

It all points to a designer

It is God who first designed

And anyone who can’t see it

Must be out of his mind.

Any explosion will disrupt

That’s Big Bang simply put

But a designer will construct

So open your eyes and look.

Yes look all around you

There is design everywhere,

Check out the next sunset

Go ahead and stare!

Look down at the mountains

And view the valleys below,

An elevated position

Will put design on show.

The plant kingdom in its diversity

The animal kingdom too

The ethnic groups of human kind

God’s design comes into view.

Unless of course you cannot see

That which is in plain sight,

If this is your case my friend

Then that is an awful plight.

It takes more to see

Things that are not really there,

Faith is one of the words we use

But the other word is what I fear.

Insanity is the word I mean

I use it for the spiritually insane,

It speaks of one who is super bright

But folly is his name.

All that man has innovated

Man has also designed

Yet all that he came and found

Came out of an exploding mine.

Even for starters

That does not make sense

And besides that we know

For insanity there is no defense.

Help is required for such a one

There is a need to fix the mind,

That’s where the fault has begun

There’s nothing wrong with the design.

God is responsible for the design

The fault is how we think,

There’s still a chance if we turn to him

We won’t go over the brink.

Stewart Russell © July 2018