A Matter of Perspecive

A lot happens that I don’t understand. For example, I don’t understand weather. I don’t know why the clouds can fill with rain/precipitation and they can hold it and not simply burst or let the rain or snow or whatever just fall.

I don’t understand how gravity works. I don’t know why we don’t just go flying off the planet.

I don’t understand a lot of the natural phenomenon in our world or even in our own bodies. Like, how do our vocal chords make different sounds—some pleasant, some not so much?

How do our brains work? How does thought work?

If you think about it, it can overwhelm you.

I’m thankful that I don’t have to know how these things work. I just know that they do, for the most part anyway.

I know one thing that I am “fearfully and wonderfully made: Your works are wonderful. I know that full well.” That is what it says in Psalm 139:14.

As I have been reading the Bible—this is the second year I have tackled the task of reading the entire Bible in a year­—I see more and more of how completely blessed we are.

I made it through the whole year last year. So far I have made it through this year.

One thing I noticed is that there really isn’t much if anything that is new under the sun. In Ecclesiastes 1:9, Solomon writes, “What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.”

The more I read the history that is recorded in the Bible, the more I find this to be true. We see the wars that play out. We see the results of repeated disobedience to God. We see belief. We see sorrow and challenges and rich and poor. We see it all. We see good marriages, bad marriages, no marriages.

I am no Bible scholar but I can read and resonate some understanding and see that so much of what was recorded is being relived today.

The things we have not seen before, but are seeing now were predicted—not by Nostradamus—but by the writings in the Bible.

Sure Nostradamus made predictions, some of which have come true, but the Bible made many of them first!

There will always be things that I don’t understand. There will also be things that the whole of human race does not understand, but there are ways to understand them better and I think one way is to read the Bible.