Letters too Big to Read

Letters too Big to Read!
By Ed Handkins

I taught chemistry and physics across the hall from the biology class. We had some good discussions (debates.) I was asked “What about the food chain? How does that fit into God’s plans?” I didn’t know the answer, but like so many other things, it sent me on a long study of the Bible and God’s plan.

One of the great truths from biology is that “life comes from life.” There was a time when science taught that life can spontaneously generate from none life. Science has proved that wrong. (And yet evolution tries to say that life did spontaneously generate from non life – go figure!) Life is necessary to sustain life. The food chain is in place because all living things need living things in order to survive.

I realized that “life came from life.” That truth then merged with another question I had been thinking and praying through for several years. I received Jesus as my Savior when I was young. I believed Jesus died on the cross for my sins and for the sins of all who would receive Him. I wondered why God had not revealed this great truth through His creation. I wondered why He had not left hints of this truth somewhere else – Then I realized “He did!” God has written the truth of the atonement in letters that were too big for me to read. I needed a new perspective in order to understand.

Every time we set down to a meal we are reminded that we are able to live physically because something died for us. It may have been a grain of corn or a head of lettuce, but something died that we might live.

In the same way, we can live spiritually because Jesus died for us. It is through His death that we can live spiritually.

Every time we eat anything we should be reminded of His sacrifice. The Old Testament understood the connection between the sacrifice and the meal. For most of the Old Testament sacrifice offerings, only a portion of the sacrifice was burned. The rest was used as a meal for the priest and the worshipers. (There were a lot of different kinds of offerings offered mentioned – each one was to be handled in a specific way.) They understood the connection between sacrifice and the meal - and they gave thanks.

Jesus died on the cross. Through His sacrifice we can live. But Jesus didn’t stay dead. The grave is still empty. Life comes from life. Because He lives we shell live also.