October 24 - Nature

This year has been a lot of fun for me ... again!  The weather has been gorgeous this fall and traveling through Iowa has been a real treat.  I've watched harvest happen another year and have been really thankful that they were able to get the crops out more than a month earlier than last year!

Trees are dropping their leaves, the grass has quit growing, everything is preparing for winter.  Nature is preparing herself for some down time and we'll see her return in the spring.  It is incredible to me that the flow of the earth is so smooth.  We look at hurricanes, tornadoes, earth quakes and other massive weather events and call them natural disasters.  But, the reality of it all is that nature will do what nature will do.  If man is in the way, we find it to be disastrous.  The flow of nature remains - whether we are in its path or not. 


God set these things into motion long before you or I even existed and they will still occur long after we are gone.  Sometimes the how and the why are mysteries, but it is awesome to watch God's creation move!

November 27,2009 - Nature's Mysteries

It's interesting to realize that some of the things the scripture writers believed to be mysteries and secrets unrevealed, have been made known by science. However, there are still so many things that we don't fully understand and that only serves to make me believe more strongly in God as Creator!

Psalm 139:15, "My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place."

We understand the miracle of birth and the creation of the human body so much more than the Psalmist possibly could, but we still consider it an amazing miracle! That simple cells could develop into a human being will always be a mystery.

"As you do not know the path of the wind, or how the body is formed in a mother's womb, so you cannot understand the work of God, the Maker of all things." Ecclesiastes 11:5

Meteorology has to be one of the most frustrating jobs. Predicting the path of a storm, or the coming weather changes, while considered a science, is still a mystery to most - and relatively unsuccessful. I suspect that with time, the mysteries of the climate will be revealed to us and we will be able to fully predict the coming weather ... but, God has left us much to learn.

"Night and day, whether he sleeps or gets up, the seed sprouts and grows, though he does not know how." Mark 4:27

I have been traveling through Iowa and have thoroughly enjoyed watching this year's harvest occur. There are massive grain storage facilities on my route and Cargill Seed Company has facilities that I pass regularly. These people know about grain. They know how it works, they understand the science of it. I wonder if they still see the miracle in the growing of a crop.

John 3:8, "The wind blows wherever it pleases. You hear its sound, but you cannot tell where it comes from or where it is going. So it is with everyone born of the Spirit."

The mysteries of nature, the mysteries of man ... we can not know, we can not always predict. That is the way it is with the Spirit. But, we can know that God has all of this in His hands. That is where I rest comfortably.