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“And God created…every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good” (Genesis 1:21).
More than 100 years ago man learned how to make machines like airplanes, and today they are able to fly a long way. Several times I have flown all the way from North America to Australia without stopping, a trip that takes fifteen or sixteen hours in the air. Some are even longer!
Did you know that God created a bird that can fly longer and farther than any airplane? There is a bird called the bar-tailed godwit (about the size of a small duck) that spends its summers and raises its young in the Arctic regions, but then in the fall flies non-stop all the way to Australia or New Zealand. This is a distance of about 7,500 miles (12,000 kilometers) and takes eight or nine days. During this time, it loses about half of its body weight, and it seems it has the ability to put half of its brain to sleep, while it flies with the other half. Quite an accomplishment!
This is one of the wonders of God’s creation and shows God’s power and glory. But you and I know more than this about God, for we know His heart of love. We may marvel at what He has created, but we are attracted by God’s heart of love, shown out at Calvary’s cross.
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