A Biological Review

This summer I shall finally be graduated. I say 'finally' because we are all to aware of the fact, I have been in college for 5 plus years. (Please keep the snickering down; hmm a Snickers sounds good). I was driving back from the library today, and I want to address some reflections I have had over the years about my experience as an under-graduate biology major. Here's the deal: I go to Hardin-Simmons University "An education enlightened by faith". And here's the other deal: not once (in the span of countless hours, labs, tests, online assignments) did we mention God. One teacher I recall only have a slight faith, but unfortunately and sadly enough that was all. So what am I trying to reflect on: well maybe this it...

I wish (and maybe this is where it all comes together for me) we were taught to reflect on the God behind plants. The God behind genes. The God behind the stars. The God behind physics. The God behind the Laws of Thermodynamics. The God behind cellular organelles. The God behind bio informatics. The God behind phylum and kingdom. The God behind the heart. The God behind the brain. The God behind advanced exons and introns. The God behind duck-billed platypus and cheetah. The God behind inter-specific competition behind species. The God behind Mendel's Laws. The God behind the law of gravity and force. The God behind it all...

Anyways... No more labs ever again! No more Genetics and Chemistry and Physics! GAH YA'LL WERE BRUTALLY HARD

Now here's a quote I have been thinking on:

"The moment we do so we can see that every Christian who comes to a university must at all times face a question...he must ask himself how it is right, or even psychologically possible, for creatures who are every moment advancing to Heaven or to hell to spend any fraction of the little time allowed them in this world on such comparative trivialities as literature or art, mathematics or biology." - C.S. Lewis

WOW. However, here is my conclusion: if God didn't allow me to go to college, I would have never gone off to Kamp and met and fell in love with Ashley Hart.

My final conclusion is thus: even with all the advances in science, all the advances in technology...we are still all desperate for a Savior. I mean come on look around, have we progressed? Have we gotten any more closer to love, joy, and peace without God? We will continue to build, continue to "advance", and continue to fill this gaping hole in our lives. But NOTHING, and seriously I mean nothing (I have experience) will fill that hole in this world EXCEPT Jesus Christ.

 Look around have we solved the world with politics? Have we obtained "world peace". Come on seriously; no man-made intervention is going to work! That is why the Lord is Lord of Lords and King of Kings. There is non-other like Him! And until we realize this, we are all grasping after the wind!! ITS ALL FLEETING! OUR CAREERS, OUR MONEY, OUR TOYS they are all FLEETING! BUT AH NOT OUR SOULS...

The sad thing is eternal life is free. And I guess its time for me to get off the pulpit, but seriously why would we desire temporal joy that is fleeting over eternal joy which lasts forever. Ah the decay of sin. I am gonna leave with this quote:

"Indeed, if we consider the unblushing promises of reward and the staggering nature of the rewards promised in the Gospels, it would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered to us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased." - C.S. Lewis

Have a good week ya'll.