Someone greater than us

We stand in the midst of Manhattan, gaze with awe at the skyscrapers and say "Wow, look what man has built!" We look at the spacecraft zooming from Cape Canaveral and marvel at man flying to the moon. Years ago we heard the song "Fly me to the moon," but then it seemed only fantasy.

Man certainly has achieved so much technologically. We talk on our mobile phones – ever-present as the clothes on our back. We watch TV from the other side of the world, instantly communicate on our computer with people overseas.

We have invented the telephone, automobile, radio, prevented polio by inventing a vaccine –and done many other things.

Individually we are proud. You might be a world-renowned singer or actor; maybe even a rocket scientist. You might be the best footballer in your college; the student with the highest grades.

We think we are great, yet if we take the time to look around, we are diminutive compared to what we see. That tree over there is much taller than we will ever be. We look at the soaring birds but we will never be able to fly – unless we board an airplane! On the top of a mountain a human figure is a mere speck.

That eagle high in the sky has superhuman telescopic eyesight that can identify a rabbit on the ground. The huge brown bear we see in the forest has more power in its paws than the hands of a world champion heavyweight boxer.

The enormous black cloud overhead will release a torrential downpour and there is nothing we can do to stop it. The lightning flashing overhead is a thousand times more powerful than the electricity that flows into our homes.

When that home begins to tremble, so do we. We frantically grab a mattress and try to protect ourselves from earthquake debris.

We are born, we achieve, we may reach great human goals, but eventually we must die; we are put in a wooden box, laid in the ground or cremated. Our life is like a flower that buds, is in full bloom, then withers away. It is a process that no-one can change.

We consider all this and realize we are not so great after all. We begin to believe there is a power greater than us. A Creator, a Master Designer, God. Some call such belief "religion," but surely it is a foolish person who will not acknowledge and trust in God when the evidence surrounds them.

How do we get to know God? Jesus said: "I am the way, the truth and the life; no-one comes to the Father except by me." John 14:6. Trust in Jesus. Obey and follow Him.