Did my weekly round of blood tests, so far doing okay.  Have another surgery coming up and even though it is a few weeks away they want to monitor how my body is doing.

Carla picked some cucumbers for tonight’s salad.  Thus far the garden is still okay, we will just have to keep watch and water it.  Don’t like giving it chlorinated water, but we don’t have a choice.

Filling up a couple of hummingbird feeders a day as we have several of the little guys eating from them.

This afternoon is definitely a stay inside day.  Talked with some people from Wisconsin and Tennessee today, their weather is a great deal cooler – although the Tennessean said it was very humid.

The Lynds group should be well into Canada as I write, Deed said it was going to be a long day on the road.

Isaiah 42:5 Thus saith God the Lord, he that created the heavens, and stretched them out; he that spread forth the earth, and that which cometh out of it; he that giveth breath unto the people upon it, and spirit to them that walk therein:

This morning as I woke up and stayed in bed for a couple more minutes, I started thinking about creation and the knowledge that we possess vs what God possesses.   

The vastness of water on earth came to mind.  There is water in the air we breathe, in the wells from immense caverns in the earth, in the clouds, rivers and streams, oceans and seas and lakes and in the ice that is formed in the winter. 

It abounds and when we really try to understand how much there is we know we cannot truly understand it.  We know that water coming from one region is going to be different than another.

Minerals, plant life and other factors will imprint themselves on the water.  Man has learned to be able to categorize it using strict criteria and can identify where it came from using that criteria.

The earth is made up of about 70%+/- water.  But what does that include.  We can see some of it, but how much don’t we see?

However, knowing this we cannot begin to fathom all that it is, humans have about 50% to 75% weight by water in our bodies, depending on age, etc.

Other mammals seem to have about the same percentage.  Fish have about 60% or about comparable.

Not sure about reptiles or insects.

Many plants have even a higher percentage of water, watermelons, with the highest, are about 90%+/- water.

How much water do we see at any given time?  In totality, a minuscule amount. 

We really cannot comprehend how much water is in this world.  Guesses and estimates have been made, some based on mathematical formulas, but how accurate are they when you consider all the sources of water on earth? 

We think we know.  We have some idea.  Some have a better understanding from the field of science they are in, but even they cannot tell you how much water is on earth.

Then we can talk about land mass, or different species of animals and insects we are told we have not begun to classify - it is beyond our ability to understand the vastness of the earth and all it contains.  And we haven’t even touched on the rest of the Universe.

We may know something about some things, but God created all and understands all.

As we grow older and study more we have a better understanding of who God is; we learn more of His ways and what He expects of us.

This doesn’t happen all at once, we have to grow so knowledge doesn’t overwhelm us at first.  We build upon past knowledge and look further into all the details.

As we do so, we come to realize there is much we cannot know there are just too many variables He is just too complicated for our human minds to understand.

1 Corinthians 13:11-12 When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.

¹² For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.

Isaiah 55:8-9 For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord.

⁹ For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.

We can begin to understand who God is, but we are only scratching the surface.  As we know there is water in the world, to measure it all, accurately, is not within our abilities.

He is the Creator, He loves us, even though we cannot comprehend Him fully.  But He is clear that He is God, He doesn’t change and He gave us His Son to allow us to once again come to Him – unencumbered by sin.

Later, Art :-)

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