Monday, April 23, 2012

OUR AMAZING PLANET

It's been 100 degrees here the past few April days in Arizona, so it's no surprise that Carol and I have enjoyed watching "Frozen Planet" on the Discovery Channel. Every program showed the amazing abilities of God's adaptable creatures in the Arctic north and Antarctic south.

One episode centered on a mother polar bear and her growing cubs who struggle during the fifty degree summer days and then flourish during the minus fifty degree winter days. Even being from Minnesota didn't help me relate well to those temperature extremes.

Another program showed a variety of Arctic birds helping their little ones fly by flying underneath them to give enough aerial lift so they wouldn't land on the tundra and become lunch for a fox. The parent bird made sure the juvenile made a water landing which would ensure their getting up in the air again to live another day.

We are living on most a wonderful planet, despite what doomsday prophets may tell us. We are residents of a privileged planet God has created which allows humans to prosper and flourish as in no other era of time and on no other planet in the universe. Despite fears of global warming or a weakened America, we live in the most amazing time of history. For this we should give God unceasing thanks. 

We should also be unceasing in our efforts to share the story of Jesus. Yesterday in church we heard Dr. Dale Meyer of Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, urge us to do just that. Despite what others may lead us to believe, it is a good time to be a Christian. It is a great time to be a pastor or a layperson and to tell the story of Jesus. It is an outstanding time to let the Holy Spirit do His work of bringing people to faith.

Here it is one hundred degrees during the day and fifty degrees at night - amazing! But sinners worthy of hell made saints by the death and life of Jesus, God's Son - that's eternally amazing! Next week Carol and I return to Colorado. We trust God's amazing grace is with us wherever we go.

 Thanks be to God!

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