Yesterday I was watching a debate between Richard Dawkins and John Lennox (www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0ulbd0eLxw ) . The point was made - how could so a being so great as to make the spectacular universe, be interested in a speck of dust on distant earth? The point is reasonable enough, but this is just the wonder of it all - He is!
We mere mortals measure so much by size. God measures so much by intelligence ( knowing about ). Intelligent about the created universe, intelligent and involved in the operation of the world, intelligent and responsive to the people of the world, intelligent and concerned for the future of humanity.
This was the teaching of Jesus - that even the hairs of our heads are all numbered, and not a sparrow falls but that He knows. This of course becomes mind boggling - but so does the capacity of a modern computer and more mind boggling is the capacity of the human brain to process so much so quickly, to store so much for so many years, and then to recall the sights, the smells, the words, the music, the emotions the information, the calculations etc etc etc - all this and more stored on a gluggy mass of grey matter maintained by eating carrots !!!
Well, if our capacity is so extreme, how much more the mind that designed the brain. Neurosurgeons may discover or repair, but none can make a brain. And more amazing is the reality that the original code writer put the details of the development of the brain into the almost invisible code of DNA
Jesus in his teaching insisted that God clothes the grass of the filed so as to present a beautiful lily, and insisted at the same time, that God was intimately interested in the well-being of each creature. He encouraged us to call this mighty , intelligent God "our Father" !!
" Big enough to make a universe, yet small enough to live within my heart"
John McKee
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MS5-YJacjal
We mere mortals measure so much by size. God measures so much by intelligence ( knowing about ). Intelligent about the created universe, intelligent and involved in the operation of the world, intelligent and responsive to the people of the world, intelligent and concerned for the future of humanity.
This was the teaching of Jesus - that even the hairs of our heads are all numbered, and not a sparrow falls but that He knows. This of course becomes mind boggling - but so does the capacity of a modern computer and more mind boggling is the capacity of the human brain to process so much so quickly, to store so much for so many years, and then to recall the sights, the smells, the words, the music, the emotions the information, the calculations etc etc etc - all this and more stored on a gluggy mass of grey matter maintained by eating carrots !!!
Well, if our capacity is so extreme, how much more the mind that designed the brain. Neurosurgeons may discover or repair, but none can make a brain. And more amazing is the reality that the original code writer put the details of the development of the brain into the almost invisible code of DNA
Jesus in his teaching insisted that God clothes the grass of the filed so as to present a beautiful lily, and insisted at the same time, that God was intimately interested in the well-being of each creature. He encouraged us to call this mighty , intelligent God "our Father" !!
" Big enough to make a universe, yet small enough to live within my heart"
John McKee
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MS5-YJacjal
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