The Call
by Kathy Brown on November 2nd, 2009 | 0 comments
Having been raised in the Midwest on a farm, there are certain sights and sounds that bring me great joy. My heart delights in rows of tall, golden corn stalks higher than I am, ready for the season’s scalping. Snow that clings to branches and muffles the usual noisy landscape elicits within me a calm peace. Springtime pops of jonquil heads through the cracked earth seem to be a much anticipated prelude to an intricately composed visual symphony . The first blink of a lightening bug, alerting the onset of summer, never fails to thrill my soul. But, it is the haunting "honk" of geese flocked in a “V” flying south that amazes me the most.
As a child I wondered how migrating birds “knew” what to do. The explanation for their behavior was termed “instinct.” That description was coupled with the understanding that through the evolutionary process these patterns are hard-wired into a species. Salmon automatically swim upstream hundreds of miles to spawn, cattle recognize they hunt down hay but not humans, and ostriches bury their eggs rather than sit on them. All of this is due to an innate ability peculiar to each kind of animal.
If we dig a bit deeper into this accepted premise, that programmed into wildlife is a phenomenon that is a “natural” habit, we find a bit of a hitch. This kind of wisdom demands an Intelligent Programmer. Evolutionists do no permit this into their equation: time plus matter plus chance. We are left with another possibility, that there is a Creator who designs all of creation in beautiful detail. What we observe as “instinct” is either internally rigged into the DNA, or there’s another possibility. Perhaps there is a faithful call by the One who cares for His creatures to “fly south,” to “eat the grasses” and “flee to the sands to nest.”
The Bible proclaims to those of us who believe it, that the animals came to Noah, the life of a sparrow is watched over and that Balaam’s donkey was ordered to speak. These are just a few of the examples that contradict Deism (God made everything, set it into motion and walked away), and the commonly accepted template of a secularist . (Foundational Presupposition Chart) For the Christian, the universe is lively with evidence of a God that loves intensely, Who has spoken into this world and to those He has made.
“For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse.” Romans 1:20
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