Snow is Super

In the wintertime, it is difficult for the animals in the wild to find water. The ground is hard and the lakes and rivers are frozen. In our earlier, more rugged days, we humans would have been without water as well.

Water is essential to life, so not having water in the winter would not do. Therefore, God performed a miracle. He created a unique way for water to get cold without turning into ice. We call it snow. Snow is a wonderful, unique structure that lies on the ground in such a way that the animals and us can just scoop it up and eat it.

But God didn't stop there. Not only is snow functionally unique and wonderful...it is a work of art. Every snowflake is a special and beautiful design. Together, they are a blanket of beauty.

Unique function and unique beauty. Only God has the love and the power to do that.

Spit is Special

Our saliva was designed to help begin the process of breaking down the food we eat. The same chemical that helps saliva break down food can be used as spit to help break down organic compounds in cleaning.

A little "spit and polish" really works because of what is in the spit.

God was so generous to give of a cleaning agent that can go with us wherever we are and be ready at a moment's notice to tackle the the problem. And it's free, too. And it doesn't imvolve a lot of harsh chemicals that can hurt the environment. That is so God.

Little Thing #8: Parts Per Million

My wife used to work in the lab of a hospital, where she would do lots of tests. A common task was to test blood samples for the presence of certain chemicals.

As she would tell me, the difference between being in perfect health and in being near death could often be due to a very small difference in the amount of some chemical in your bloodstream--as little as a few parts per million.

Wow! When you think about how we abuse our bodies--eating poorly, not exercising or not getting enough sleep (or other things even worse)--its a wonder that we all don't just keel over and die on the spot.

But even though God designed these bodies to be fine-tuned machines with very small tolerances for chemical deviation, he also designed them to be able to adapt to less than perfect living and still live within those tolerances. That is a pretty remarkable thing.

Only a great God could create such a great wonder as that. So next time you eat a Twinkie, thank God that he built a body that can tolerate it and still live within its chemical tolerances.

Little Thing #7: Thunder Storms

Due to the way God designed the science of Meteorology, heavy storms are most likely to occur at night. It has to do with the temperature change to cooler at night.

What makes this so wonderful is that God knows we need the rain. He also knows that we have productive things to do in the day that could be impared by rain. Therefore, God sees to it that the majority of the rain occurs at night, when it is least likely to upset our plans. That way, we get the best of both worlds--productive days and renewing nights (both for us and for the earth).

Litttle Thing #6: Little Factories

For the basic needs of food, clothing and shelter, God provided a lot of little factories. For clothing, He made little wool factories (called sheep), little cotton factories (called cotton plants), and little leather factories (various animals). For shelter, he gave us lumber factories (called trees). For food, God made all kinds of factories (plants, fruit or nut-bearing trees, animals)

It is amazing when you compare God's factories with the factories of man. For synthetic fibers, mankind has made huge factories which deal in toxic chemicals and put a lot of crap into the atmosphere. For synthetic house materials, we again have created some of the most toxic chemicals known to man.

Many people are alergic to some of these synthetic fibers and household materials, but very few are alergic to the products of God's little factories--cotton and wood.

God's little factories are pretty much self-sustaining and don't leave much of a carbon footprint. Some, like trees, actually improve the air quality. They practically run themselves, and very efficiently I may say.

It all goes to show the superiority of God in his factory creation and the love of God in his giving them to us.

Little Thing #5: Middle Initial

When I was a teen, I used to listen to a funny DJ on the radio. He liked to make fun of a person he called "Bozo T. Clown." So you didn't know that Bozo had a middle initial? According to this DJ, he does. The "T" stands for "The," as in Bozo THE Clown.

Well, in actuality, "Clown" is not Bozo's last name. Clown is a description of what Bozo is--a clown.

The same is true for Jesus. Christ is not his last name. It is a description of what Jesus is--the Christ, the Messiah.

In my mind, I often think of Jesus as "Jesus T. Christ." I want to remember that little middle initial. Because when I think of that initial, it reminds me that this is not just anyone, but Jesus THE Christ. I also like the little pause it makes between Jesus and Christ, so that I have to focus more of the Christ Character in his name.

Little Thing #4: Ice

When most chemnicals move from gas to liquid to solid, the molecules come closer together. The substance becomes more dense.

This is not true of water. When water moves from liquid to solid, the molecules move further apart. Solid ice is less dense than liquid water.

Why is this important? Because it is less dense, ice floats on the surface of liquid water. However, if ice acted like normal chemicals, it would form on the bottom.

As a result, if ice had been normal, it would form every winter on the bottom of lakes. It would kill or engulf the plant life on the bottom of the lakes. Without the plant life in the lakes, you would kill off most of the animal life in the lakes.

To prevent all of this death and destruction, God created water in such a unique way that it would not behave like most other chemicals. It is another example of his great love and great concern for his creation.