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Sabbath and Sunday, May 4 and 5, 2024
This year I’ve been affected more than usual by tree pollen, and have done my share of sneezing and consuming the occasional Allegra pill. And I’ve noticed the way the pollen collects on cars, mine included. In the photo you see my windshield, which—along with the entire car—I have simply decided not to wash until the plague has passed.
“Plague,” of course, is a vastly brutal word to use about pollen. This yellow dusting is actually made up of some pretty astounding structures. At the end of this blog I’ll give you the Wikipedia entry link for “Pollen,” and I suggest you take a look at it. What breathtaking engineering. (Make sure you study the electron-microscope photo!)
But in this blog I’m not so much focused on Intelligent Design as I am on another attribute of God: His superabundance. Do you see that pollen on my car window? It was created to land on trees and germinate them, but these little spores will never make it to a welcoming sapling. Instead, they’ll be washed down the drain along with billions of others on hundreds of thousands of cars.
“How wasteful!” someone might say. But “How generous!” is a more spiritually perceptive response. God is superabundant in so many ways. Upon faraway mountain meadows, for example, millions of wildflowers grow, many doomed to fade without having been observed by a single human eye.
But that’s what God is like.
First, take a look at the Wikipedia link, then at the one below it, which is about what God is like.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pollen
https://www.bibleinfo.com/en/topics/god