Yesterday, Kathy and I took a little road trip. We visited the Weaver Creek Spawning Channels and the Chehalis River Trout and Salmon Enhancement Facility. They were amazing.
The Weaver Creek facility has 3km of manmade spawning channels, beautifully laid out for walking and viewing. Three species of salmon, sockeye, chum, and pinks, come here by the thousands to spawn and die.
Every year, the salmon return to where they were born to spawn. No one yet understands how they know where to return.
The salmon’s lifecycle is a miracle in itself. They are born in freshwater gravel beds and eventually travel downriver (often as much as 150 miles) to live their lives in the ocean. When it’s time to spawn, they return upstream in freshwater, overcoming a wide variety of obstacles, including waterfalls, to their place of birth.
I found it impossible to stand there and watch the salmon without marveling at God’s incredible creative power and the beauty of what He has made.
God has placed knowledge of their home into their hearts. In the same way, He has put a knowledge of our home into our hearts.
In 1670, Blaise Pascal wrote,
“What else does this craving, and this helplessness, proclaim but that there was once in man a true happiness, of which all that now remains is the empty print and trace? This he tries in vain to fill with everything around him, seeking in things that are not there the help he cannot find in those that are, though none can help, since this infinite abyss can be filled only with an infinite and immutable object; in other words, by God himself.”
When the Apostle Paul addressed the learned philosophers at the Areopagus, he said this…
So Paul, standing in the midst of the Areopagus, said: “Men of Athens, I perceive that in every way you are very religious. For as I passed along and observed the objects of your worship, I found also an altar with this inscription: ‘To the unknown god.’ What therefore you worship as unknown, this I proclaim to you. The God who made the world and everything in it, being Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in temples made by man,nor is he served by human hands, as though he needed anything, since he himself gives to all mankind life and breath and everything. And he made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined allotted periods and the boundaries of their dwelling place, that they should seek God, and perhaps feel their way toward him and find him. Yet he is actually not far from each one of us. Acts 17:22-27 ESV
Only God can truly fill that void in our lives. Everything else will fail.
Praise God for the wonderful way in which we are made, and that He calls us to Him.
Hallelu Yah (Praise God)
Be blessed,
Kevin
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