Wednesday, September 18, 2013

Ballpark fun

Few things in the world make me aware of the grandeur and magnificence of God’s creation like going to a professional sporting event.  This weekend we went with some of our extended family to a baseball game. I don’t very often go to games.  As a matter of fact, I don’t watch games on TV, so I am not sure if AT&T is a large park, or a small one.  But I do know that it is amazing. 

I ponder the amount of people that had to be before this park could come into existence.  I imagine the engineers who designed it.  They had to go to school, where they learned techniques and mathematical equations that had been developed for hundreds of years.  I envision the computer programmers and hardware manufacturers that built the computer and wrote the program on which the plans for the park were made.  I picture the excavating crew and the machines that were required to dig out the dirt, rock, and clay before the foundation could be laid; the steelworkers and masons whose skills would hold the whole thing together.  I smell the food and see the grass and the infield.  I watch as hundreds of people work diligently to ensure that this little corner of the world is as pristine and beautiful as it can be.  And as I gaze at what took thousands of people and hundreds of years of architectural know-how I am reminded of a simple, Biblical truth. Psalm 33:9 “For he spoke, and it came to be; he commanded, and it stood firm.”