"Because our understanding is earthbound . . . Human to the core . . .
Limited . . . Finite . . . We operate in a dimension totally unlike our
Lord . . . Who knows no such limitations. We see now. He sees forever."
(Charles R. Swindoll)
There are things that we see every day and
yet never really notice. Then the mist is cleared from our eyes and we
see the work of the Lord..
One evening at dusk I was looking out
of my window towards the sea when a huge flock of birds appeared, almost
like a black cloud - there must have been thousands. They were
travelling from west to east parallel with the coast. Then suddenly it
happened. Not a few of them, not some of them, but every single one of
them instantly changed direction and flew on a different course.
Now we mere human beings think we have perfected communication. But
those birds didn't have two-way radio yet they knew precisely at what
split second in time to change course and in what direction to fly. In
my air force days I have seen a group of airmen on parade bump into one
another on a clear direction to turn left. For some reason, and only the
Lord knows why, that incident was presented to me as evidence of the
work of our mighty Creator, while a recent nature series on television
informed me that you and I and those birds crawled up out of a swamp.
And here is another bird story. These birds, Shearwaters or Mutton
Birds, live on the islands in Bass Strait off the north coast of
Tasmania, formerly my home state. Every year these birds migrate to the
North Pacific and spend summer around the Aleutians. As the northern
winter approaches, the Shearwaters fly back to their annual breeding
ground on the Tasmanian islands, a journey of tens of thousands of
miles, and will go to the same nest and, give or take a day or two for
adverse weather conditions en route, will arrive on that same nest on a
given day.
I learned about the migration of birds at school, as
I'm sure you did. But did you really think about it? Did you see the
Creator in all this? I must confess that I didn't. To me, they were
just - birds! But there is something else that I have learned in later
life. Jesus Christ is interested in every detail of my daily life - and
of yours. And why not? If He has numbered the hairs of our heads, if He
notes the fall of a bird, would He not care about what we do every day
and how we do it? Would He not be concerned about how we relate to other
people, about our behaviour, about our concern for others?
There
are many things in life that we take for granted. Sometimes we need to
be reminded.
Ron Clarke JP
(Mark
16:15) An e-mail from Kingborough, near Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
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