Comments on: God in the details https://www.anotherthink.com/contents/essays_on_faith/20120408_god_in_the_details.html One Christian's view of postmodern life. Thu, 18 Jul 2013 05:49:59 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.5 By: Michelle https://www.anotherthink.com/contents/essays_on_faith/20120408_god_in_the_details.html#comment-1967 Fri, 27 Apr 2012 19:28:43 +0000 http://144.24.24.144/contents/uncategorized/20120408_god_in_the_details.html#comment-1967 I printed this out the day after you posted it, and have just read it…

So beautiful and so very true. Thank you for your wonderful insights.

]]> By: Bruce https://www.anotherthink.com/contents/essays_on_faith/20120408_god_in_the_details.html#comment-1966 Mon, 09 Apr 2012 19:22:55 +0000 http://144.24.24.144/contents/uncategorized/20120408_god_in_the_details.html#comment-1966 That is so right! And it’s not just that God made this world for his own enjoyment, which he certainly did, but that he made it for our enjoyment as well, and then outfitted us with everything we need to enjoy it. I doubt that I have done half as well for the fish in my aquarium. I enjoy watching them in it, but I can’t tell if they are having fun or not or if they have any idea how beautiful they are. I can’t even figure out how a fish knows that it is a guppy and not a swordtail. Also, I have no idea what other animals get out of flowers and sunsets, much less music, but I’m pretty sure that it is nothing like what we get out of them. That is, unless and until we decide that there is really nothing very special out there, at which point, sure enough, our foolish hearts become darkened (Romans 1:21) and the universe becomes flat and gray — for us, anyway.

And what lies ahead? I keep thinking of what the prodigy Akiane told her mother at five years of age, that “the music in heaven is better than here. This music hurts my ears and my head really bad, but heavenly music is always gentle. I can’t tell you how different it is from what you hear on earth! It feels like joy, looks like love, smells like flowers and dances like butterflies. Music there is alive! You can even taste it.” As Steve Jobs apparently said while passing from this life to another, “Oh, Wow! Oh, Wow! Oh, Wow!” Or as Ravi Zacharias’s father-in-law said at a similar transition in his life, “Amazing! It’s just amazing!”

Clearly, it behooves us to remain aware and be ever grateful.

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