Convection and providence

I thought about combining dark chocolate and mint green tea. Mint and chocolate right... It was not the greatest combination, not enough sugar/bitter, but the resulting suspension looked interesting. The dark chocolate dissolved into small flakes/specks of cocoa. These specks slowly floated around. They persisted because they were neutrally buoyant. The specs continued to float around for over five minutes. They continued to move despite not being mixed. I watched as the brew continue to swirl. This was the convection of the liquid of the hot tea as it was cooling down.



It is interesting how this little physical phenomena is responsible for so many things. It keeps the oceans alive by moving nutrients to the surface. It keeps fish in lakes alive because the ice forms a barrier over the surface due to convection. It controls rains and winds. Convection determines seasons. It caused the food you eat to be grown. It determines even the very livelihood of people. You very life depends on the natural process called convection. Oh, how something so important is relegated to only a coffee mug. How it is made so small when its importance is so great.

The math of large convection systems and turbulence is skipped over because it is seen as trivial or because science cannot even produce a basic model of it. I feel that people do this very same thing when it comes to God when he acts in small but immeasurable ways. Cynics have always said that the devil is in the details. Oh, how they are so incredibly wrong. It is God. I know this far too well. There have been many coincidences or actions of His Spirit in my life to bring certain things about. Namely my faith in fighting doubts. I cannot deny God's sovereignty. I was drawn to it even before my theology shifted toward being reformed. People who ignore God's providence and sovereignty do so to their harm. They take it as a natural process only to ignore it without cause. Science may attempt to describe God but it cannot even on its most basic level.

Science could never arrive at an answer of 42. Yet, it is too blind to even try. It is too blind to tell what 42 means. It is too blind to see that the reason for everything is the incarnate word. The very word through who and by whom all things were created. The word by which all things exist and are supported in existance. This singular reason is christ and him crucified. The very world exists for Christ; it does not exist for us to be sovereign gods of our own. Puppetry... Certainly not. His absolute sovereignty and redemption through Christ is more like convection. A natural process necessary for life. A natural process which will cause the world to bear fruit to the glory of God. He also has made it easy to forget. Not out of deception but due to its very nature. The universe shouts that God exists. It is just because men don't see it rightly. They trade the truth for idols. The real things that are unknown, are things covered by a veil lest we look up into heaven and perish under the weight of God's holiness and judgment. There is grace here too.

Let God's secrets remain hidden for eternity's eyes.
Let us not question his will or even try.
Let God work in ways that no one knows.
Let its beauty blossom like the unfolding of a rose.