There's also a new television show that I'm hooked on, Storm Chasers. It's a Discovery Channel series, I believe. It follows meteorologists who often compete in placing themselves in the path of tornados to get live scientific data. There is an obsession within them to be there and to experience the power and awe of nature. They crave to see a fingerprint of the almighty as it is first laid down, a fresh print if you will. These folks have sunk serious money into this pursuit. They have expended great quantities of research, technology, focus, travel, and time. In many cases they are risking not only valuable property but their very lives. Some pursue the information so that others will come to have early warnings of these distructive by-products of storms. It seems there is a mixture of care for others, a hunger for knowledge, and a desire to make a name for oneself. It is facinating to follow.
One of God's fingerprints is seen in how he has wired us with a desire to search out and know.
In Proverbs 25, the writer observed,
"It is the glory of God to conceal a matter; to search out a matter is the glory of kings.
As the heavens are high and the earth is deep,
so the hearts of kings are unsearchable."
God has formed us to want, to desire, to seach, to press for understanding. There's an unsettled part of us that seeks out and finds pleasure in exploring. What a delight to see that within myself. What a delight to see the passion with others. We often benefit from the passionate study and research that came out of the passionate pursuit of another in an area that we had little or no interest but which we come to have a great need.
I am seeing God's fingerprint within me and his prints in people around me, and it is something to see!
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