Wednesday, December 22, 2010

Trust the Lord's Calculations

December 22, 2010

Proverbs 3:5 – 7 “Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight. Do not be wise in your own eyes; fear the Lord and shun evil.”

Do you remember chemistry or physics courses in school? The method to derive the correct answer often seemed illogical. Simple math failed to solve the equation. Chemistry and physics equations requires one knowing and properly using constants, such as the speed of gravitational acceleration of 9.81 meters per second per second. Chemistry calculations frequently use Avogadro’s number of 6.023 x 1023 particles /g. atom. We could easily list a vast array of constants and factors necessary for advanced calculations.

Constants such as those above along with similar factors appear as common sense for those who interact with them on a daily basis. I am told that Beta Sig alumnus and world renowned Professor of Chemical Engineering at Kansas State University, Dr. Larry Erickson, quickly calculates extremely advanced equations in his mind. To assure proper perspective, one of his undergraduate students told of an assignment where the calculation endured for forty minutes in Microsoft Excel. These equations epitomize complexity!

Most of us, at least this author, struggle to see any connective logic when comparing the raw data with the final product. Is your mind also boggled from these and even simpler complex equations? Do you, like me, lack the mathematical talent to comprehend and calculate those equations? Does my failure to understand and inability to successfully complete these calculations result in the calculations to wrong? Absurd!!!

Of course proper calculation yields accurate products regardless of whether we understand the calculations. Yet, how often do we hear people claim the Bible or God's activity in the world lacks logic simply because we fail to comprehend the events or reasoning? How often do we negate God’s ways, His guidance in our life, because the product is beyond our understanding? We frequently deny God's methods due to our inability to calculate His transforming us from where we are to where He leads and places us?

Does God use constants in his equations of which we are unaware? Does Avogadro’s number change or cease to exist based on someone’s intellectual capacity? Equally, God’s constants--wisdom, love, and character--remain true regardless of our human understanding. Jesus Christ, the word made flesh, the eternal Son of God in the trinity, alpha and omega, states that he is, “The same yesterday, today and tomorrow.”

The triune God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit may speak to you directly or indirectly--yet always in agreement with the Bible, revealing awesome plans for you, beyond our comprehension. Believe! Christ’s calculations containing the eternal Wisdom, Knowledge and Understanding of Creation; involve constants beyond the cumulative of human wisdom and understanding.

Leaning on our own understanding or wisdom instead of Christ’s Wisdom, Knowledge and Understanding while fearing Him, results in foolishness leading to failure. These amazing constants and complex calculations are why we must trust and fear Him. Acknowledge His advance calculations for He will make your paths straight; even when the math does not add up.

See Christ, Believe Christ, Achieve with Christ!

Rick E. Meyer
See, Believe, Achieve Inc.
www.rickemeyer.com

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