Thoughts for another day

Nov. 12, 2007

Today's verse: Eccl. 11:5. Just as you know not how the breath of life fashions the human frame in the mother’s womb, so you know not the work of God, which He is accomplishing in the universe. (NAB)
(Pls. read the above before you read further. Thanks)

There are times when the mind wants to think that men are superior to God. I recently read a statement by a famous atheist, ‘Man’s emotions are bigger than God.’ Besides, when I read blogs of atheists or pseudo atheists, I can see there is a lot of intellectual fare. Eventually the onus is on the believer to prove that God exists.

It is a clever ploy because those who question God’s existence are sharp enough to know God will not stoop to prove His existence; He doesn’t need to, though God does prove it in a few cases I have read of, when the purpose was great. So they win the argument and the believer bows out. I’d like to say that, for anyone to first learn about God and appreciate Him, it is better to see His work in the universe rather than asking Him to make an appearance. Look at the earth, the sun, the moon, etc., they go about their tasks year after year in the same manner without deviation – isn’t it God, orchestrating their order? How else can you explain their going about their routines with nothing to guide them on? We humans cannot make a ball go round without it getting off its orbit within seconds. So who is the brain behind this? Isn’t it that of the Almighty?

Jesus mentions (Mk. 4:26-28) of a sower who sows seed and sleeps. The plant grows from the seed and he knows not how. Yet, it does. So also there are many phenomena in the universe for which man has no logical answer. Take the simple rain clouds. I always wonder, they are full of water, yet they float in the sky…how? Then again, the whole quantity of water in a cloud does not fall at once! Science may explain a few things yet something tells you there is a power holding the clouds and its water. Could that power be God? It should be. What about snow? It is said each snowflake is different from the other; an exposition of God’s creative power. I could go on and on. But you get the flow don’t you?

Today’s verse reminds us that we know not many things incl. the way God works. I think of how the Word of God is clear about His purposes being achieved like: All men coming to know God; and I wonder how. And it is here that today’s verse comes like a breath of fresh air bringing in an amazing assurance, when it says: ‘so you know not the work of God, which He is accomplishing in the universe.’ Amazing, despite all the chaos we see, God is orchestrating the perfect world even now and we know not how!