Thoughts for another day

August 5, 2008

Today's verse: Eccl. 11:5. As thou knowest not what is the way of the spirit, nor how the bones do grow in the womb of her that is with child: even so thou knowest not the works of God who maketh all. (KJV)
(Pls. read the above before you read further. Thanks)

The other day I was watching a channel on science and they were talking of the progress science has made and how much man knows and that everything is in the grasp of man. I was literally taken aback because I was thinking of the so many things man doesn’t know; does he know what’s going to happen next! Still the boasting, etc.

As a question to all those trumpeters of knowledge (pls. don’t get me wrong, I am not against knowledge per se, but knowledge that tries to seek independence from God.) is provide the answers that God asks Job in chap. 38, 39 & 40. I bet they can’t because the human brain can only surmise and encapsulate from ‘what’s there’, it can hardly fathom that which isn’t there. Science has progressed to the extent, it can explain only how a thing happens but can’t answer why it happens, nor can stop it from happening!

And so we have our verse today, mentioning the same, that is, our knowledge does not span the instance nor the happening of the growth of the baby in the womb. How then can we know what’s there in the mind of God, who has made all. So magnificent is God’s knowledge, that although blind Bartimaeus was sitting by the side of the road and crying out, Jesus heard him amid the din in the crowd following Him (Mk. 10:46-52).

God can hear the cry of a forsaken child, lonely and uncared for in the farthest corner of the earth. He knows the haplessness of fish that are caught in the net and also understands the cries of a baby just born. O you, beloved of God, bear well in your heart this fact that God knows what you are going through. He understands every sigh that escapes your lips and knows the pain tormenting you. And He will not leave you nor forsake you. It’s just that He is waiting for you to allow entry into your realm and work out His magnificence in you. Could you open the door and allow Him entry?