Naturally Super

 "Sun and moon stood still in the heavens at the glint of your flying arrows, at the lightning of your flashing spear. In wrath, you strode through the earth and in anger, you threshed the nations. You came out to deliver your people, to save your anointed one." Habakkuk 3: 11-13

    Webster defines the word "supernatural" to mean "attributed to some force beyond scientific understanding or the laws of nature." Who better to bend the rules than the One who created them? Let me ask you something: If the sun and moon stood still in the heavens, do you believe God could do that? Or would your rational sense form an explanation such as, "Well, coulda been an eclipse. Or the breezes of El Nino went awry..." 

    Is it too fantastic to believe a great fish could swallow a stubborn prophet? Could a nonagenarian give birth to a healthy baby boy? Is it natural for quail to fall out of the desert sky day after day, enough to stuff the stomachs of the complaining Israelites, so much so that meat was coming out of their nostrils? Does it give you the shivers to imagine a floating hand writing a message on the wall? Does a donkey ask questions of its owner? What manner of Man walks on water, commands the wind and waves to cease or pays taxes by means of a coin-bearing fish? Can a little boy's lunch really feed five thousand? Best of all, can a flogged, crucified Man, who had lain in a sealed, guarded tomb for three days, come back to life? 

    There's a Vacation Bible School song I learned alongside my great-nephew that plainly states:

"What an awesome God we serve!

What an awesome God we serve!

Angels bow before Him. Heaven and earth adore Him.

What an awesome God we serve!"

        Kids don't have any trouble believing these things. Maybe that's what Jesus meant when He said, "Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven." (Matthew 18:3) That doesn't mean these are children's fairy tales or fables. I embrace belief in this truly awesome, fantastic, powerful, mighty God! When you were a child, did you ever get into one of those arguments with a playmate in which you proudly stated, "My dad can beat up your dad!" We want our God to be the King of the hill. He's naturally super! How cool is that?