Insightful Musings on theScriptures
by
Raymond P. Sparre
Northwest University class of '67
Good morning, dear people.
The weather is looking terrific for what we have in mind—again. My cousin, Dawn, came down on Wednesday afternoon with plans to join me in a little skiing on Mt. Hood. We went yesterday and had a great time. This morning is looking even better. We plan to pull out headed for the mountain in just over an hour. In view of all these pressing priorities, my schedule and routine has been a little disrupted (in other words, normal). So this posting is a bit different. I’m sending three days worth of incompletions…just to get something off rather than nothing.
My tentative plan is to be back home early enough to get a little sawmill work done this afternoon.
Have a blessed day.
Love, Dad/Ray.
This is an awesome psalm that extols the awesome creative genius of an awesome God. And right here, embedded in this single verse that I’ve chosen as a starter, is an absolutely startling and awesome realization that never really and profoundly occurs to most people. Maybe I’ll break the realization into two essential pieces: (1) NATURAL EFFECT: ALL FOOD COMES FROM THE EARTH. It all flows out of life forms that either grow from the soil of the earth—PLANTS—or is nourished by life forms that are nourished by the same—ANIMALS. Others have diagramed and mapped out the whole fascinating process and call it THE FOOD CHAIN. (2) SUPERNATURAL CAUSE: SOVEREIGN CREATOR GOD MAKES IT ALL HAPPEN. Independent of His Spirit-driven biological engineering (supernatural) that causes life, there would be no such thing as a life form in the first place—the soil of the earth would have no power to produce anything other than chaos. And to prove that point, when has man with all his brilliance and scientific understanding ever been able to assemble all the minerals and molecules in the right combination so as to cause life?—making even one true autonomous life form that lives, breaths, eats, digests, and reproduces? The point is that science may be able to put every piece of molecular matter together that composes a life form—with the exception of one essential ingredient: THE SPIRIT OF GOD.
Note: NOT FINISHED. I didn’t finish up these thoughts. Maybe you can. But the first verse of Psalm 105 seems to be a very appropriate and compatible response to these ideas so far—