Blood Sucking Evangelists

"The earth is full of His glory," the cherubim and seraphim proclaim in Isaiah. Many people wrestle over how this is the case when there is so much discord and evil among humans, the ones created in God's image. Rather than being bothered by humans, I was more torn over the animals that seemed to serve no beneficial purpose, but only spread disease, death, and pain.

The mosquito, for example, seemed to me to have no real part in bringing glory to the Maker of Heaven and Earth. I failed to see how such an annoying pest could ever bring any glory to his Creator. One day I almost sarcastically asked Jared Townsley how the mosquito brought glory to God. Then, with a patranizing look in his eyes and gentle tone of voice he laid bare this wonderful truth:

Mosquitoes are insects which pierce the flesh of men to draw on their blood, and without this blood they will perish. This tiny pest preaches most clearly the truths of the Christian Gospel. We, mankind, like mosquitoes were a stentch in God's nostrils through our rebellion and sin. And we, just like mosquitoes, pierced the Son of God who became a man so that we might drink of His blood. After all, without His blood we will perish and be condemned through our own rebellion to eternal damnation. It is by His wounds that we are healed.

Therefore, may every mosquito bite, may ever forgotten can of deet, and every buzz in our ears remind our hearts and souls of the majesty and wonder of the Gospel, and the wisdom of the One who authored the story in Nature as well as His Word!

God through Light Made Time and Space

When I first learned about God's eternity (timelessness) I thought of Him existing in Eternity Past and Eternity Future. When I learned about God's omnipresence (dimensionlessness) I imagine Him being everywhere. The problem with both of these notions is that they simply extend the thoughts of time and space to infinity; while God exists independently of both.

What is so intriguing about this fact is that this means that both time and space were created. We must be careful here, though. For we cannot say that there was a time when time did not exist. Nor can we utter any other foolish quip such as "there was a time when space did not exist", because He created them simultaneously. How?

When God created light, He created the constant velocity. In creating velocity He defines the eternity of the world as we know it in time and space. The equation for velocity is: velocity = distance / time. So, by making a constant velocity, God created space and time! After all, for something to have velocity, it has to have somewhere to go. And if it travels from one place to another, time must pass if the velocity is finite (which the speed of light is). So when God said, "Let there be light" He did not merely make something that shines. No, He established the fundamental characteristics of our universe as we know it. He created dimensions which we understand as space and distance. He created succession of events which we call time.

Do you feel the weight of this thought? When God created light, He created movement. For lack of better language, when light began to exist, something moved for the very first time. Nothing had moved prior (Of course this is one of those muddled statements, because to speak of 'before' and 'prior' make no sense without the creation of light).

May our hearts and minds tremble at the greatness of our God who with a single statement created space and time.