Flying high

Yesterday a close friend headed off overseas on a holiday.  Mid-morning I called up a flight tracking program on my computer out of curiosity to see where he was just then.  And yes, a little dot on the world map informed me that he was overhead Broome at 32000 feet and travelling at 496 knots!  I opened Google Earth, zoomed in, and lo!  I had the same view he would just then have been seeing outside the window of his Boeing 777.

The marvels of technology that let us not only know where others are, but even what they are seeing.  It can be somewhat frightening in terms of our privacy as we see what the explosion of CCTV and other 'spying' gadgets let governments and others know about us.  

But for all that, we can't discover what the other is thinking, feeling, planning or fearing.  That lies hidden from our technology.  But not from God.   Scripture tells us that He knows everything about everyone of the 7.4 billion of us alive today -- "But not a single sparrow can fall to the ground without your Father knowing it." (Mt 10:29)  

Is that even possible?? Faith certainly makes demands on our limited intelligence and will.