Paper Airplanes

• 1 Corinthians 2:¹⁴ The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned. ¹⁵ The spiritual person judges all things, but is himself to be judged by no one. ¹⁶ "For who has understood the mind of the Lord so as to instruct him?" But we have the mind of Christ.

For Christmas my daughter and her husband gave my son a special present. One that he goes to every morning since they gave it to him. Its 365 miniature paper airplanes, one for each day of the year!

Sufficiently inspired I decided that I could make some special planes of my own, and set to make some! Now, of course, since I know next to little or nothing about the aerodynamics of flight my planes looked just  great, but flew no place! They left my launching fingers and promptly plopped onto the ground!

That's what made me think of these verses in 1 Corinthians. There's the natural realm, it would seem, and no spiritual realm. To my five senses the world is only as they sense it. What I can touch, taste, hear, see, and smell is the natural world around me. The laws of physics, and all scientific knowledge is a discover of that world, and God truly ordained the study of Science, not to exclude God, but to Glorify God, and to acknowledge all the wonders of his creation. Science can be traced back to the early days recorded in the first few chapters of Genesis when God gave man the task of naming all the animals. He brought each living thing to Adam to see what he would name them. Wonderful thing is we have scientist still who find new species of life!

But there is a spiritual realm! And that realm is not other than the natural one, it is the realm that all other realms are contained. The bible describes it as the Kingdom of God. The bible defines that world, and the only way to comprehend it, to understand it is by way of the revelation of the Holy Spirit of God indwelling in each of us who have come to believe in Jesus Christ as our savior and Lord!

Romans 1:21... describes the opposite of that effect,

• ²¹For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened. ²² Claiming to be wise, they became fools, ²³and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and creeping things.

This is a description of when mankind abandons the worship of God through Science, to making the natural world around them their God.

When things don't go the way we expect, its time to admit that there's something we don't know, and in this case its someone we don't know. And knowledge begins with, acknowledging him, and crying out to him to save us.