For those who won't read earlier blogs,
the reason I call this blog the Sparrow's Perch, is because of Psalm
84:3 and Psalm 91. I can imagine the Psalmist going to the
Tabernacle, and wishing he could flit in and out of the Holy Place
like the sparrows. The tender reference to being under HIS wing, and
the thought of God as a refuge, ring out from the Psalms. So, it is
when I sit up here in my office. The sparrows, pigeons, and crows
don't usually wake up until I'm almost ready to leave. It is
mid-fall, and the sun doesn't break over the horizon until almost
7:30. During the height of the summer, the birds are carrying on by
at least 5:30 in the morning. I miss their chatter, and bathing in
the puddles on the flat roof just outside my window. I've often
thought about putting a bird bath out there, but they have a lake, Ha
:) just across the street. It wouldn't be for them as much as for
me.
This week in Science has been an
exciting time. The Mars Rover Curiosity found a cool unexpected
rock, and Felix Baumgartner became the first man to freefall faster
than the speed of sound. These feats are amazing! These
technological feats make it is easy for us 'human beings' to think we
have it all going on. We THINK, and that makes us special. Yet, in
many ways, we have sold our birthright for a pot of boiled meat. We
no longer depend upon the Lord for our daily bread. We have our
brains, and our hands to feed ourselves. Who needs God? It is why
we spend billions of dollars going to a planet we know is hostile to
us, hoping for that one glimpse of a microbe that would prove God
isn't the creator of the universe. It is why we spend billions of
dollars looking out to the Stars hoping to find the one conclusive
piece of evidence that will prove once and for all that WE are right,
and God is wrong. Those who deny God will be able to point out how
“knowledge” has shred the last vestige of religion, and dissuade
even the most ardent believer. The purist scientist will finally be
able to declare that we were an inevitable process of the universe,
formed of a primordial stew that is possible anywhere within any
trillion of star systems in the millions of galaxies that populate
our universe. (LONG SENTENCE ON PURPOSE TO PROVE HOW KNOWLEDGE IS
WONDERFUL)
Freed from the chains of religion, what
is man capable of?
NOTHING MORE than he has done
throughout the history of his miserable existence outside of God.
So, while an amazing piece of
technology creeps along on a distant planet, and a man leaps from the
edge of space, the sparrows come to my window sill and amuse me.
They know their provider is good, and so do I. They know the one who
brings rain and withholds it all at the same time. They aren't
concerned with the scientific process, because knowing is only
knowing. It doesn't change anything. As someone who has always had
a love of science, science fiction, and astronomy, I am always brokenhearted at the 'reason' for discovery. What a shame. So, let me
offer this to those who might be sitting on the fence of doubt and
faith. Faith costs you nothing, doubt steals everything. In the
end, when this tent is rolled up and placed into the soil from which
it came, my spirit will explore those worlds that loom just beyond my
touch. Eternity will not be spent in useless nothingness. For even
as science is beginning to discover, this universe is made up of
stuff we can't see or explain. We know it is there, we think we know
how it should behave, but every day we realize we had it wrong. We spend so much time, and energy exploring the universe around us, but so little time growing the eternal love that is within us. Is
eternity one of those things we want to get wrong?
I guess it depends upon your
perspective. A little sparrow has just cocked his head and danced
away. His perspective is the one I like.
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