How does the mountain goat stand on a sheer rock face, a honeybee form a nest of waxy hexagonal cells? How do plants find life in the blackest crevice of sea and earth? Creation is awesome and, to me, inconceivable. God declares His nature in nature, executing the extraordinary before my eyes every day. As I go along expecting the broad mundane, His hand works the intricate impossible.
If it were my burden to solve these puzzles, where would the bee nurse its pupae? How would the goat find sure footing? How could a stem find sustenance in an abyss? I have no answers, beyond what I see, beyond what God has made clear to me. It is He who is the great intellect, who designs the inconceivable.
I pray in my small place, holding my questions before Him. I used to believe that some things were just too complex for me to solve. I’d leave those things at His feet and move quietly away in defeat. Now I know it isn’t for me to solve at all, it is for me to listen and follow Him in His ways, relinquishing my own.
God’s ways are always superior, beyond my imagination, experience and intelligence. Only He holds promise of extraordinary things. I cannot predict the yet unknown turns and unfolding that the Creator of my world will work with His hands; I can only trust, acknowledge and behold.
And amazement seized them all, and they glorified God and were filled with awe, saying, “We have seen extraordinary things today.” Luke 5:26
Meeting God at the Park 