How Well We Have It!

Reading Psalm 114 this morning; particularly verse 8, I was reminded of our favored state; how pervasive Our Father’s Grace is in our existence!

“You turn the rock into a pool of water,” the writer says, remembering God’s miraculous provision of water for the desert travelers when Moses hit the rock with his staff. It occurred to me, as I thought about this, that Our Father did not have to create water out of stone in that instant. There could, very well, have been a spring, maybe an Artesian, flowing just below the rock’s surface which broke free and flooded the region when Moses hammered the rock.

In my way of thinking that ruins the story. I like the miraculous. The phenomenal appeals to the human audience. But after more thought I see something just as miraculous, in the presence of an Artesian, at the precise moment a million or more people desperately need it.

Moreover, to recognize this is to be reminded of a grander miracle. We live in a Universe which is, largely, unfriendly. Human life, most life for that matter, does not fare well in black holes or fields of careening meteorites, and cascading comets. Yet this planet on which we live, and the conditions surrounding it, are completely friendly to our existence. Its atmosphere, its orbit in relationship to the sun and other planets, the gravitational forces and how they are maintained have been so since time began. Friendly to our existence and actually sustaining it robustly, this is a “wonder” beyond wonders! Not randomly but by design, as an essential condition of our “being,” all that is necessary is there, always there, and, consequently, there when we need it!

WE ARE! ALL THAT IS! HAS BEEN … ALWAYS IS … WONDERFULLY MADE!