Hollow Bones
John Fischer

While watching a PBS children's program yesterday with my son, there was a question presented as to why a bird can fly and a monkey can't. I felt like raising my hand and shouting, “Oh I know! I know! Please call on me!” That's because I know that a bird was created by God to fly, but I also know that fact would probably not fly on PBS, and sure enough, the answer came back that the bird's bones were hollow, thus making it lighter. Well that was amazing enough. I was thinking about more obvious things like wings and feathers that the monkey didn't have, and they brought up this thing that I had forgotten (if I ever knew it) about a bird's bones being hollow. I stopped right then and there and worshiped God for hollow bones!

Yes I worshiped God watching PBS. Some people probably can't imagine this happening, but truth is part of my possession in knowing Christ, and whenever I can add to it about the world He created, that is worthy of worship.

Think of how hard it is to explain wings and feathers and hollow bones without a Creator to design them. I almost feel a little sorry for people who have to do this. When you start looking with any care into the natural world of plants and animals, let alone human beings and the perfectly balanced ecosystem in which all these dwell, those who factor God out of the equation have a lot to explain. It's virtually impossible to do, and yet, even some of the smartest among us persist in trying. It's amazing to what lengths some people will go in order to explain the world without God.

There is a battle going on in our courts over teaching evolution in public schools and adding intelligent design as an alternative theory. This is not the time and place to discuss this issue except to say that, whatever is taught in the classroom, every creature in existence is already a grand part of God's self-evident creativity walking, crawling, swimming or flying about in broad daylight. Every day and night is a grand symphony of sight and sound all declaring God's glory and inviting us to praise Him. A human court is such a small thing when the verdict is already in!

Let everything that has breath praise the Lord!

(Hollow bones! Really now. Who would have thought of that? How I love those hollow bones!)

PDL