Reaping in Due Season

Did you hear the news about the thirty-five year old theory of "inflation" which explains how the Big Bang could have happened and still have the incongruous fact that the universe be of equal temperature? I don't  pretend to understand it but basically I think what scientists expect is if the universe expanded from a single point, then the furthest reaches of the universe should be cooler...but they are not. So a scientist named Andrei Linde thirty-five years ago proposed the theory of inflation which explains how that could happen. I think he proposed that the outer limits of speed (which today is the speed of light) have changed since those genesis days. There are some telltale ripples that he proposed would prove his theory. For thirty-five years, no one found them. Just this week, it was reported they had been found. I am sure I am incorrect in my summary of the theory -- it is likely similar to what you would read in "Origin of the Universe for Dummies." You can google it and try to understand it for yourself. It is not critical to the point of my blog. I believe God created the universe but I don't pretend to know by what mechanism He did so. The reports of this astonishing news are also refreshingly honest that none of us know how the matter appeared right before the Big Bang. Their theory proceeds from a point before which, they admit no one could prove what happened. We were not there. They do recognize that small bit of matter came from somewhere...

But now, to the point of my blog within my realm of understanding. I love the YouTube video of when Linde and his wife are told the good news. The elderly physicists clutch their hearts, and Linde asks the news bearer to please repeat it. The wife hugs the news bearer. Their astonished joy over the proof that had eluded them for 35 years is heart warming.

I had an online discussion with some wonderful pro-life friends who are also sidewalk counselors. Some of them have faithfully shown up at the sidewalks of abortion mills each week for a year or more, and have yet to know for certain that their presence turned a single woman from killing her baby. They will not stop showing up because they believe that God is directing them to do so, but nonetheless admit it would sure be nice to see definitive fruit of their efforts.

If Andrei Linde's story has any spiritual message for me and the rest of us non-Physicists, it is this. If you are convinced you have a message of truth, don't waver from it, don't give up, and patiently wait for validation. Truth will be revealed in the end. Unlike Linde, we may not all be fortunate enough to see the fruit of our efforts in our walk with God. But God sees it. And one day, we will stand before Him and I bet one of the first things He will do is tell us!

Honestly, I would rather obey Him and follow eternal Truth, with no evidence of reward on earth, than receive accolades for following a lie.

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Ephesians 5:8-11

For at one time you were darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light (for the fruit of light is found in all that is good and right and true), and try to discern what is pleasing to the Lord. Take no part in the unfruitful works of darkness, but instead expose them.

Psalm 1:1-6

Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers; but his delight is in the law of the Lord, and on his law he meditates day and night. He is like a tree planted by streams of water that yields its fruit in its season, and its leaf does not wither. In all that he does, he prospers. The wicked are not so, but are like chaff that the wind drives away. Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous;

Galatians 6:9 

And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up.

2 Thessalonians 3:13 

As for you, brothers, do not grow weary in doing good.

Psalm 27:1-14 

Of David. The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? The Lord is the stronghold of my life; of whom shall I be afraid? When evildoers assail me to eat up my flesh, my adversaries and foes, it is they who stumble and fall. Though an army encamp against me, my heart shall not fear; though war arise against me, yet I will be confident. One thing have I asked of the Lord, that will I seek after: that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to gaze upon the beauty of the Lord and to inquire in his temple. For he will hide me in his shelter in the day of trouble; he will conceal me under the cover of his tent; he will lift me high upon a rock.