what a wonderful world

I just watched the fresh water episode of the BBC Planet Earth series, and once again I am utterly amazed. It's crazy enough that the filming crew would spend so much time just to catch that one instant that some random fly larvae happens to pop out of its egg while still underwater, or wait for the crocodile to jump out and eat the water buffalo (ok, those crocodile vs. everybody else scenes are still depressing to me...the baby zebra never wins), but to me they show something...bigger.

Maybe I'm a helpless romantic (in the TRUE sense, not the "I like chocolate, flowers, and long walks on the beach...although those are all great), but EVERY time I finish an episode, they just give me goosebumps all over. Granted, the sweet score makes it so much more...epic.

Psalm 19 says that "The heavens declare the glory of God, the sky above proclaims His handiwork...There is no speech, nor are there words, whose voice is not heard." Now I know that when David wrote this He had never seen Angel Falls in Argentina, or the migration of water buffalo en masse across the African plains, but isn't that what he's talking about? I mean, all that cool miscroscopic and underwater stuff that we "ooh and ahh" at on Planet Earth...that wasn't around 50 years ago...we're seeing stuff about the planet that we live on that our grandparents never even imagined. Back in the day, you had to physically be hiding out in the jungle to see this stuff, and now we get it delivered to us courtesy of iTunes and BBC. Not that I'm complaining...rather, it seems to me that the reason why these shows amaze me are because they're showing me things about who God is and what He's made that I would never know otherwise. It's like a door has been opened that we would have never discovered on our own...maybe, unknowingly, the fine folks at BBC are giving a voice to that which we used to not be able to hear. It seems to me that when David wrote the Psalm, maybe he just looked up one night, saw the stars, and realized just how small he really was, and how amazing God's work is, and trust me-- that's enough. The things that we can clearly see, they're enough for us to know God is speaking, but if we look a little closer, there's a whole world that we haven't even considered...one that's right out our back door in the woods, or in the reefs that we see on postcards. It's all God's work, and they're talking too...declaring His glory.