See Your Horizon

Please raise your hand high if you own a crystal ball. Can you read it? Can it be read? Can you see what’s beyond your horizon? Ever wonder why all those who can tell the future don’t get a good reading on lottery numbers?

Some questions regarding our horizons …

Question #1 – How do we know the world isn’t flat? One sure way is to watch a ship sailing away from land. You’ll see the ship’s mast slowly fade away until it disappears telling you the earth is curved like a ball.

Question #2 – How do we know the earth is spinning? By using a Foucault pendulum, of course. The actual plane of swing appears to rotate relative to the earth. Invented about 1850 by Leon Foucault, it proves the earth rotates.

Question #3 – How do we know the earth revolves around the sun? The four seasons, the mathematics of orbit and watching other planets will suffice.

Question #4 – How do we know God exists? Do you want the short answer or all the volumes of scientific proof of centuries of trial and error?

Let’s begin with the obvious. Can you show me a glass jar full of gravity? What exactly makes the Monarch butterfly fly several thousand miles south every winter, and then fly several thousand miles north again when summer approaches? How exactly does a bird learn to sing without a music teacher? How is it that an octopus can live miles deep in an ocean under incredible pressure in darkness and in frigid water? How does your heart know to beat when you’re sound asleep and your breathing to continue on schedule? Personally I don’t know what lies beyond your horizon but as for mine …

“For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.” Romans 8:38-39

God has plenty to say about your future. As long as God, who knows the future, provides our agenda and goes with us as we fulfill his mission, we can have boundless hope. “For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.” Jeremiah 29:11