I have long felt we can learn from nature. One thing we need to learn is that there are creatures out there that can maim and kill us. We must be on guard and use common sense, but sometimes folks just throw caution to the wind. Check out this photo of a giant Great White shark leaping far out of the water while some dude is surfing perhaps fifty feet from it.
I can’t say anything, I used to walk in the pitch-black dark without a light going turkey hunting, across the very road where the big gators in these photos are laying
I also used to traipse around hunting in the very woods where this eight-foot rattlesnake was recently killed on Honey Lake by the new owner’s survey crew.
Nature is filled with creatures that are wild and dangerous and will do us harm and/or kill us. Perhaps the meanest and most dangerous of them all is the human being. While the beasts in the photos are highly efficient killing machines, they are far down the ladder compared to the efficiency of modern weaponry and the savageness of some people in our midst. We read about them every day.
Yesterday I wrote about heaven and while we cannot get a clear picture of exactly how it will be, God has given us enough information to comfort us and give us hope. Isaiah 11:6 – The wolf shall live with the lamb, the leopard shall lie down with the kid, the calf and the lion and the fatling together, and a little child shall lead them. The cow and the bear shall graze, their young shall lie down together, and the lion shall eat straw like the ox. The nursing child shall play over the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put its hand on the adder’s den. They will not hurt or destroy on all my holy mountain; for the earth will be full of the knowledge of the Lord as the waters cover the sea.
I view entering heaven with great anticipation. I love my wife, family, and friends, and parts of this world, but I am not fulfilled and am thoroughly disgusted by the evil that is so pervasive in this world. I admit I should be more patient and optimistically wait upon the Lord and watch as His plan unfolds and fulfills itself, but I yearn to join Jesus in His holy abode. Anyone with faith should recognize that when that final curtain drops the fun will begin. I found it exceedingly interesting in the passage offered by Isaiah that wildlife will abound in heaven as will children.
Revelation 21:1
Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth; for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more. And I saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “See, the home of God is among mortals. He will dwell with them as their God; they will be his peoples, and God himself will be with them; he will wipe every tear from their eyes. Death will be no more; mourning and crying and pain will be no more, for the first things have passed away.”