Mark 4:36-41
One of the perks
of working as a camp director is I got to live at the beach during the
winter. I worked year round but only had
to be on property during the spring and summer.
My winter work could be done anywhere so I chose to live at Rehoboth Beach Delaware
My love affair
with the ocean began early in my life.
My father was in the Navy and my mother chose to follow him from port to
port. Much of my life was spent living
close to the ocean and I would spend most of my time on the beach. I have seen the sea calm and I have seen the
sea at its roughest. My mother taught me
early to both fear and respect the ocean because its water and waves are
uncontrollable by human hands or intentions.
It was this love
of the ocean that subconsciously taught me about God before I was old enough to
want to seek Him out. The winds and the
waves had a definite life flow to them; the tides come in and go out just as I
breathe air in and out of my body. The ocean
was wild and nothing or no one human could control it. I saw there was a definite power and rhythm
to the ocean and I attributed that to the God who created it. As I grew older and began getting more
involved with God, I knew without a doubt that God, and God alone created and
was responsible for that rhythm and power.
I find it hard to
understand how anyone who loves nature, especially the ocean, can deny the
existence of God. Nature is full of
evidence of the existence of God, especially the ocean. People who deny God become their own god and
feel they control their own life and all that is around them. Life at the beach would challenge them; I
would challenge them. Can you control
the wind and the waves; can you control the coming of morning and the going of
the day? You may understand them but you
cannot control them. Only God can do
that.
I am not a
scientist but I appreciate their efforts.
They have accomplished many good things.
People like Stephen Hawking, who expend much of their time and energy
developing and proving theories amaze me, for they live in a realm that is not where
I live. I read that he is on a quest to
find the theory of everything; one unifying answer to all the questions of
life. I looked at some pictures of pages
and pages of equations and it blew my mind.
My only question
is how can you do that without bringing God into the equation? For me God IS the one unifying answer to all
the questions of life.
God is not a
theory. God is the one True thing, Truth
Himself. As much as the realm of thought
of the scientist is above my thoughts, so God’s thoughts and ways are on a
higher realm than theirs. They may
eventually know how everything works but they can never have control over the
way things work. Their theory of
everything may be proven at some point in time, but it will not be the
Truth. God’s Truth is proven every
morning as I watch the daylight come, and every evening when I watch the
daylight go, and all the other times when I watch the wind whip up the waves on
the ocean.
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