Day 37 -wonders

 Whenever Im sitting at the end of the runway in a plane which is about to take off, and I feel the engines starting to roar and there is that moment of thrust before the brakes come off and the plane starts to hurtle along - these words always come to mind

Very truly I tell you, whoever believes in me will do the works I have been doing, and they will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father.  John 14 :12

Im not sure that Jesus was primarily thinking about air travel when He said that to His disciples, but nevertheless, the fact is that Jesus never flew in a plane.  😊



I was watching a documentary last night about a guy who was rowing up the west coast of Ireland.  Amazing photography captured dolphins and puffins and basking sharks and even hump backed whales!  I had no idea there were so many fascinating sea creatures on my doorstep ( so to speak)  It made me want to get a boat and go out there myself.  But of course if I did that I probably wouldnt see much or any of the things my television brought me last night.   Because the wonders of television mean that I can see the whole world, and above it and below it from my armchair.  I can see inside volcanos and the peaks of mountains and the deepest caves.  I am part of the first generation on earth which has been able to view the whole world in all its amazing glory and incredible biodiversty on a screen in front of me.  Isnt that just amazing?   Only a hundred years ago people were still marvelling at the invention of colour photography ( 1904).   Sound recording on magnetic tape only became possible in 1934 .  And yet now we can watch an amoeba splitting and dividing or see an egg being fertilized by a sperm.   We can track a blue whale's song through the oceans and accompany a greylag goose on its migration.  Incredible.  Really.

The world is truly an amazing planet.  It is full of amazing places.  Incredible beauty.  Astonishing creatures and plants and flowers.  And human beings are equally amazing - their feats of engineering, works of art, endless creativity in customs and architecture and staggering diversity of creed and tribe are also now all available to us at the touch of a button.   My great grandparents had to read books for a lifetime if they wanted to know just a tiny fraction of what I can now scroll through in an evening.
Even in my lifetime things have changed so much with the invention of the internet.   We have so much information nowadays. What would the Jesus generation make to it all I wonder.

I think it must be an end times privilege to be able to know our wonderful planet in so much detail.  It should cause us to worship the God who created it all.  As our world gets smaller our God should be getting bigger and bigger.  Every high definition image on our screens which shows us a heretofore unknown aspect of His creation is a miracle.

Let's keep our eyes open today, not just for what we can see around us in the sunshine of a spring morning, but for every wonder of the world which we encounter through technology today as well.  And let us give thanks for this wonderful time in which we live when so much of what was hidden to generations past has been made known to us.  What a privilege!