Peacocks invoke wonder
Creation and the Word connect as an everyday speech. What is the Peacock speech? We saw them recently at the Denver Zoo roaming freely. Hardly anyone walked by without noticing them with wonder. In San Diego, “The spectacular Peacocks showing off to any Peahen in the area continue to be photographed by more Zoo guests than any of our other animals!”
What is this Peacock saying to us? They do have a loud personal call. Most believe that the Peacock is calling to the Peahens. The hens in the area can certainly tell if a Peacock is around. But I think it may be more appropriate to appreciate the calling as a crying out to God for a mate and in praise for the refreshing time of the year. For example, according to God’s word, young lions roar to Him for their food. Even though animals are provided for by the zoo keepers, they maintain their God-given instincts to seek their provision from God.
The Speech: We depend on God
The dependence of the Peacock and young lions on God is a speech to us from God that we can understand through His Word (Scripture). Here are a couple verses that talk about our dependence on God.
“For ‘in him we live and move and have our being’ ”
Acts 17:28, Romans 9:16
“So then it depends not on human will or exertion, but on God, who has mercy.”
Understand God’s Word While Meditating on His Works
The creation and the speech (the way of His precepts) are connected. One assists our eyes to see the other with a focus to understand the Word.
Make me understand the way of your precepts, and I will meditate on your wondrous works.
Psalm 119:27
The Speech: God is great
Peacocks are among God’s wondrous works. They speak of the greatness of His goodness, His might and His beauty.
For how great is his goodness, and how great his beauty!
On the glorious splendor of your majesty, and on your wondrous works, I will meditate. They shall speak of the might of your awesome deeds, and I will declare your greatness.
Zachariah 9:17, Psalm 145:5-6
The Speech: Beauty points to God’s Holiness
The first impression we can get by looking at a peacock is that it is beautiful.
Physical beauty of creation points to the spiritual beauty of the Creator-God. The beauty of the invisible God is in His attributes, which together are an expression of His holiness. Puritan wisdom from Pastor Joel Beeke:
Puritan Edward Lee speaks of God’s holiness as the beauty of all His attributes, without which His wisdom would be but subtlety, His justice would be cruelty, His sovereignty would be tyranny, His mercy would be foolish pity. God’s blazing purity and unique glory make all His perfections shine with unparalleled and incomprehensible beauty.
God is worthy to receive glory and honor because He created all things in the beauty of His holiness.
“Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord God Almighty, who was and is and is to come!”
“Worthy are you, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honor and power, for you created all things, and by your will they existed and were created.”
Revelation 4:8b,11
The Speech: God sees all and the whole earth is filled with His glory
Explanations of the Peacocks beauty, that leave out the Creator-God, continue to fail. Let us honor God as the Creator and see the testimonies of His Wisdom in creation. See the eyes as a reminder of God’s omniscence including in His providence (God sees all).
The eyes of the LORD are in every place, keeping watch on the evil and the good.
And the rims of all four were full of eyes all around
Proverbs 15:3 Ezekiel 1:18
See the long train-feathers that cover the tail of the peacock as a reminder of the train of the Lord’s robe as He sits on the throne, high and lifted up, where one seraphim calls to another saying:
“Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts; the whole earth is full of his glory!”
Isaiah 6:3
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