Hi friends and welcome to today's encouragement from our Daily Bread.

I'm Kirsten Holmberg and I titled our reading God's Good Glue.

Scientists from Penn State University recently engineered a new kind of glue that's both extremely

strong and also removable. Their design is inspired by a snail whose slime hardens in dry

conditions and loosens again when wet. The reversible nature of the snail's slime allows

it to move freely in more humid conditions,

which are safer for the snail, while keeping it securely planted in its environment when

movement would be hazardous.

The researcher's approach of mimicking an adhesive found in nature calls to mind scientist Johann

Kepler's description of his discoveries.

He said that he was merely thinking God's thoughts after him.

The Bible tells us that God created the earth and all that is in it.

The vegetation on the land, the creatures of the sea and every winged bird,

the creatures that move along the ground, and mankind in his own image.

When humankind discovers or identifies a special attribute of a plant or animal,

we're simply following in God's creative footsteps, having our eyes open to the way he designed them.

At the end of each day in the creation account, God surveyed the fruit of his work and described it as good.

As we learn and discover more about God's creation, may we too recognize his magnificent work,

care for it well, and proclaim how very good it is.

Today's Our Daily Bread devotional scripture reading is from Genesis chapter 1, verses 20 through 25.

And God said,

Let the water team with living creatures

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