There is purpose for even the most annoying of God’s creations . . .
As I plant myself behind the keyboard in hopes of putting the many thoughts bouncing around in my head to paper, I am completely distracted by a fly buzzing around my room. It has been circling without landing for several minutes now as both my cat and I sit mesmerized. How can something so tiny may so much noise and so completely capture my attention?! Now that the buzzing has stopped, I wonder what God is trying to teach me through this fly. That may sound silly, but such an annoying and useless creature MUST have SOME purpose. Right? Well, my brief trip into the land of google didn’t produce anything terribly exciting about flies, but the thought remains and is joined by an acute awareness of the many mosquito bites that cover the lower 18 inches of my legs. Perhaps today the fly is simply a reminder that no matter how small or how much of a nuisance, it is ALL a part of God’s grand design. Maybe a good reminder as we head back to school tomorrow. . . May the Lord help me to always be aware of the overflowing love He has for every single child who walks through my classroom door from the quietest to the loudest, from the most compliant to the most obnoxious. Let me see them as God sees them.
Funny you mention mosquitoes. A few of us had this conversation the other day. Our conclusion? We decided that there’s no need for everything to have a purpose and some things exist merely because God decided for them to exist – that being purpose enough…. Mosquitoes may well only be in that category.
On the other hand, (here’s a can of worms for you….) maybe the mosquitoes’ sole purpose was to fit somewhere in the middle of the divine creative process a long, long time ago…. or maybe merely to carry disease (you know, those poor little germs need to live too!)
Grace and Peace,
`tim
Comment by Tim — August 17, 2009 @ 9:36 am