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Our Understanding of His Creation

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Then the Lord answered Job out of a whirlwind, and said: Who shut up the sea with doors, when it broke forth as issuing out of the womb: When I made a cloud the garment thereof, and wrapped it in a mist as in swaddling bands? I set my bounds around it, and made it bars and doors: And I said: Hitherto you shall come, and shall go no further, and here you shall break your swelling waves. (Job 38:1, 8-11)

For the charity of Christ presses us: judging this, that if one died for all, then all were dead. And Christ died for all; that they also who live, may not now live to themselves, but unto him who died for them, and rose again. Wherefore henceforth, we know no man according to the flesh. And if we have known Christ according to the flesh; but now we know him so no longer. If then any be in Christ a new creature, the old things are passed away, behold all things are made new.
(2 Corinthians 5:14-17)

And he said to them that day, when evening was come: Let us pass over to the other side. And sending away the multitude, they take him even as he was in the ship: and there were other ships with him. And there arose a great storm of wind, and the waves beat into the ship, so that the ship was filled. And he was in the hinder part of the ship, sleeping upon a pillow; and they awake him, and say to him: Master, does it not concern you that we perish? And rising up, he rebuked the wind, and said to the sea: Peace, be still. And the wind ceased: and there was made a great calm. And he said to them: Why are you fearful? have you not faith yet? And they feared exceedingly: and they said one to another: Who is this (think you) that both wind and sea obey him? (Mark 4:35-41)

Reflection:

There is so much of our creation we still have yet to understand. Though science reveals some of the wonders of what He has done, there remains so much more which is of mystery. As scientists examine the smallest building blocks of what we know of the world, we see such a balance, such small tolerances, which if changed by the slightest degrees, we could not exist. The laws of physics and nature are so numerous and precise, one can only marvel at the intricacy and beauty of their design.

Some would have us believe that all which is, found its way into being simply by accident; a fluke of an eternity of chances. What is it, we should wonder, which holds all together; which allows the swirls, ebbs and flows of all which is animate; which enables a mystic order of symmetry that yields the wonders of life within a universe of chaos? To believe such wonders of design are mere happenstance seems incongruous with all which we observe.

Science is one of the methods by which we study His creation, but the task is not small. Though we may see how some elements work, we speculate at many stages as to what we cannot see; but speculation is not always truth and the truth we miss may skew our knowledge. Science is a process where we interpret observations, in the form of data we collect, from which to establish the basis for what we call knowledge. We do not always know if the data from which we interpret is correct. We do not always know if the data we collect is complete enough from which to derive the correct conclusions. Even if we can ensure the former, we do not always know if our interpretation of what we observe is correct or whether it is influenced by what we do not observe and cannot detect. It is for this reason, we continue to argue about what we believe we know.

There is all which we can touch, but how do we explain that which we cannot? How do we explain our very ability to think and reason? How is it some assume it is just a matter of chemical reaction? How is it our consciousness is infused with emotion? How is it that our ability to think is filled with both light and darkness, joy and sorrow, love and hate? We may examine the brain and see where electricity flows and observe that emotion appears influenced within the activity by certain parts, but what is it really which yields our consciousness and where does it go when it is no longer contained within the firing of our neurons? Some may speculate, but until we are able to to cross the threshold bordered by death and eternal life, we only have faith to guide us.

The day is coming where understanding will be granted to us. We will see that the world as it has become is not what it could be. He desired that we should share in love, but He allowed us to see the flow of good and evil, as well as the consequences, set in motion by our choices. We have allowed divisions to be sown among us through the ways of the world. We see one another according to the flesh and not by the soul. If we lived by what we can see within the heart, we would not be prejudiced by outward appearances. The Creator sees us all as the children of His creation, yet we struggle to understand how we are all brothers and sisters, all seeking a path through a few years of time before we are brought forth to the door of our eternity.

Despite all the efforts of learned men and women, we remain barely as infants in the understanding of His creation. Though we seek to control the forces which abound around us, who can boast that they are able to calm the winds and the seas? If we comprehend, we shall see, there is something greater at work in our lives than the ebbs and swirls of chance. If we examine our paths, we will see His hand at work. If we have faith, we shall take His hand and receive it with love rather than pushing it always away. If we have faith, we need not fear the worst of the world, for He has already prepared a place for us where evil cannot follow.

May the peace and blessings of the Lord be with you always,
Prayer Soldier

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