Miracles of Creation
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As a young man, I had a choice to make about my future.
Would I go into computers or aviation?
I chose computers because I think I was better at it than flying.
And it was cheaper to get started
If there is one thing in life that I miss, something I ask myself if I should have pursued, it’s flying.
I’m still interested in aviation, the skills, the technology.
I watch videos about aircraft incidents and technology.
And while watching one of those videos, I was struck by a miracle of creation most of us have depended on at some time in our life, yet I doubt many of us had considered it.
Inertial Navigation System
Inertial Navigation System
Consider how you know where you are.
I can remember a few times when I traveled a lot, waking up in a hotel and not being sure what city I was in.
I actually had to look at the telephone, which had the hotel’s address on it, to remember where I was.
We generally have a sense of where we are.
When we are moving and which way we are headed.
But that can easily be fooled.
As a student pilot, I was introduced to the phenomenon of vertigo, or spacial disorientation, in a very effective way.
We’ve all had that sensation of dizziness or disorientation,
We weren’t sure which way was up.
But that is nothing when compared to full on vertigo.
You body telling you that you were moving one way, when you were actually moving another.
I was watching video about how commercial airplanes “know where they are”.
Sure, today they have GPS, but that is relatively new, and dependent on outside signals.
How does an airplane know which way is up, which way it is going, and how fast it is doing so?
By using a device based on a miracle of creation, the Inertial Navigation System.
We’ve all played with tops or gyroscopes.
Everyone who has ridden a two-wheeled bicycle or a motorcycle is familiar with the law of creation known as conservation of angular momentum.
A spinning object will retain its orientation unless acted upon by an outside force.
Most of us have been on a merry-go-round or a fast moving vehicle and felt the forces pushing our bodies to the outside of a turn.
What struck me while watching that video, is not how those things happen, but who created the laws by which they do.
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
I believe, when God created the heavens, he created nature itself,
With all of its natural laws.
As a student pilot, I learned that airplanes fly because of a law of nature, Bernoulli’s Principle. (It wasn’t until a few years later that I found the God who created those laws.)
And I learned how to navigate based on those laws of nature as well.
But as I watched while the host explained how a few spinning discs and devices that can “feel” that you feel when your body is “pushed” in a turn can be used to tell an airplane’s systems where it is in space, I was awed by the creator of such an ordered and amazing universe.
I was reminded not only of Genesis 1, but of John 1 as well.
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made.
All of this got me thinking about how much of our lives depend on those laws of nature God created in the beginning.
Use Your Own Dirt
Use Your Own Dirt
For years now we’ve been told to trust the “science” rather than God who created it.
We honor and congratulate men who “discover” the science that God has created.
That take credit for God’s creation.
And that reminded me of a story I heard:
A scientist was very proud of himself for “creating” an amino acid, part of a protein and a building block for life, and thereby proving, in his mind, that life could have evolved on Earth..
God asked this scientist what he was so proud about.
The scientist told God that he had “created” life. So God asked the scientist to show Him how.
As the scientist started collecting the soil and other chemicals he used for his process, God stopped him and said,
“Pardon me, but please use your own dirt.”
We take for granted what is in the creation God has made.
And how it impacts our lives each and every day, usually without us even considering it.
You can see me standing here because of Genesis 1:3
Then God said, “Let there be light”; and there was light.
This building stands here on solid ground because of Genesis 1:9
Then God said, “Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together into one place, and let the dry land appear”; and it was so.
You had breakfast this morning because of Genesis 1:11
Then God said, “Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb that yields seed, and the fruit tree that yields fruit according to its kind, whose seed is in itself, on the earth”; and it was so.
And Genesis 1:24
Then God said, “Let the earth bring forth the living creature according to its kind: cattle and creeping thing and beast of the earth, each according to its kind”; and it was so.
In fact, the only reason we are here at all is because of Genesis 1:26
Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”
And that is just the beginning...
Consider the concrete, wood, steel, and cloth that was used to build this building and everything in it.
Or the chemical processes that allow your car’s engine to work so you could get here.
What about the laws of physics that both heat and cool this building?
I haven’t even started on things like gravity, weather, electronics, and countless other things we depend on each and every day without giving it a second thought.
But all of that is outside?
What about what is inside?
Immune System
Immune System
How many of you have considered the miracle of the human body?
We have spent almost three years worried about a virus.
A few proteins and the like that we were told was “out to get us”.
And in all of the fear, debate, and recriminations, it seems little thought has gone into the wonders that God created in our bodies.
God did not leave your body defenseless against a world full of things that can kill you.
As David said in Psalm 139:14
I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Marvelous are Your works, And that my soul knows very well.
From birth until death, God’s greatest creation is the human being,
And He gave that person a body with some remarkable abilities.
We all have grown out of a single cell, a fertilized egg.
With traits from both our fathers and mothers.
Now we sit here, each and every one of us, with an estimated 30 trillion cells in each body.
And every time scientists tell us they have it all figured out, God has another surprise for them.
But that’s not all,
Sure, our bodies have tools to defend and repair themselves.
But did you realize that most of the medication we use to help our bodies do that, come from God’s creation as well?
From the vitamins and minerals we ingest in our food, to the vitamin D our bodies manufacture from sunlight.
Most of the medications we use today are either derived from God’s creation or are built upon it.
Yes, I would say we are fearfully and wonderfully made.
Even if we often fail to give our bodies a second thought,
That is, until they stop working the way we want.
Conclusion
Conclusion
These are just a few of the things that remind me of the numerous miracles of God’s creation.
Yet every day we take these miracles for granted.
Take a moment and think of the miracles of creation you encountered just today.
And what encounters you have in store for you the rest of the day.
I try to take some time every day to look at the world around me and marvel at the God who created it.
In this instance, I was reminded about this by an amazing navigation tool,
Based on a law of nature that God created way back at the beginning.
What in this world will remind you of the God who created it.
So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. Then God blessed them, and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”
We are part of God’s creation,
But unlike the rest of creation, we are told to subdue it and have dominion over it.
How are we treating the creation God has entrusted us with?
Are we being good stewards of the creation God has given us?
Are we glorifying God in our stewardship?
Or like so many around us, are we glorifying the creation rather than the creator.
If we wish to be good stewards of God’s creation, shouldn’t we start with recognizing it all around us.
From the miracle of a baby, to the beauty of a flower.
From the power of gravity, to that of a distant star.
From the awesome powers that keep the universe together, to the laws of nature that create a rainbow.
From the miracle of an eagle on the wing,
To the annoyance of a mosquito.
All of these are miracles of God’s creation.
I hope you will take some time to enjoy it in the near future.
Not to glorify the creation, but its creator.