Listen to me now about the difference in meaning between the short-term matters of our physical beings and the eternal relationships between the believer and his God.

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Listen to me now about the difference in meaning between the short-term matters of our physical beings and the eternal relationships between the believer and his God.

If you save a person from diptheria when he is a baby, or save him in his teens from smallpox, or save him in his fifties from a heart attack, what have you done?

If that man lives to be ninety and still is without God and does not know why he was born, you have simply perpetuated the life of a mud turtle. That man who has never found God and has never been born again is like a turtle, with two legs instead of four and no shell and no tail, because he still does not know what life has been all about.

I am thankful that I have found a promise from the God of all grace that deals with the long-term and the eternal. I belong to a company of plain people who believe the truth revealed in the Bible. We believe that it was God who made man in His own image and breathed into him the breath of life and said unto him, “Now, live in my presence and worship Me — for that is your chief end. Increase and multiply and fill the earth with worshipers.”

Yes, these plain people, these believing people, will tell you that God created the flowers to be beautiful and the birds to sing so that men and women could enjoy them. The scientist, with an entirely different  kind of perspective, would never admit that fact. The scientist contends that the bird sings for a totally different reason.

“It is the male bird that sings, and he sings only to attract the female so they may nest and procreate,” he tells us. “It is simply biological.”

It is at this point that I ask the scientist, “why doesn’t the bird just squeak or groan or gurgle? Why does he have to sing and warble and harmonize as though he had been tuned to a harp?”

I thin the answer is plain — it is because God made him to sing.

If I were a male bird and wanted to attract a female I could turn handsprings or do any number of tricks. But why does the bird sing so beautifully?

It is because the God who made him is the Chief Musician of the universe. He is the Composer of the cosmos. He made the harp in those little throats and the feathers around them and said, “Go and sing.”

Thankfully, the birds obeyed and they have been singing and praising God ever since they were created. The scientific man may protest and say, “No, no!” But my heart tells me that it is so. ”

Ecclesiastes  3:11 He hath made every thing beautiful in his time: