Tuesday, June 27, 2006

Lightning Bugs

Hey all, I forgot one more thing from Alive. Matt Redman led worship too and said something really profound. In England, just like here, people seem to enjoy worship, then once it's done, instead of going back to their seat or whatever to hear from the Word of God, they go to the bathroom. "Preaching is not a laxative." Anyway...

Do here's what I was thinking about the last few days. Lightning bugs are cool. I had one on my hand last night (he landed there, we chilled, good times had by all) and for the past week it's just kind of struck me, how cool are lightning bugs?

Think about it, your job is to design the universe. Make sure everything is in balance for life to take place, something you have created so incredibly fragile that if the earth's axis are off 1/10 of a degree life ends. You create many forms of life that need each other. Would you have come up with bacteria to help keep us healthy?

Then, in the midst of it all, what do you make? A bug that glows. Bright green. For only a few seconds at a time. How incredibly cool is that? How creative is God if He comes up with a glowing bug? It's absolutely amazing.

T

1 comment:

liz simmonds said...

i also dig lightening bugs.

memories of childhood twilights chasing the elusive butt-glowing bugs. good times.

i appreciate the analogy of us like the lightening bugs; bringing some of God's light into a dark place. even if just for a moment. (or smeared across the skin for a tad longer glowing experience, but that's just an unkind way to treat one of God's cool creations.)