Proverbs 30:18-19

The book of Proverbs gives us a lot of instruction on a lot of different subjects. One subject that can keep us in God’s wisdom is Godly Follower-ship. Who we follow; where we follow; how we follow are all spoken about in Proverbs. Here is one of them about things in life unable to understand: 

Proverbs 30:18-19 (ESV)

Three things are too wonderful for me;

four I do not understand:

the way of an eagle in the sky,

the way of a serpent on a rock,

the way of a ship on the high seas,

and the way of a man with a virgin.

What causes you to stop to "wonder?"   When you see something of creation, do you ponder it?   I ponder the humming bird.  Marvelous in its splendor!   I don't understand it.   I "wonder" about the tides.  Yes, they have been explained to me, but I still don't get it.   It is simply amazing that they come up and go down and can be predicted in their motion.    I remember as a boy watching in amazement at an ant farm as small ants, in a team, carried large portions of food (supplied mysteriously by me) across the ground.   Like a small army they retrieved and conquered.   These are mere examples of the mystery in creation, giving to us as a gift from God.   Solomon seems to be giving us his top four "wonderments."   He tells us to consider the eagle who soars effortless through the sky only to attack at great speed and with perfect accuracy a prey he, and only he, can see.   Solomon marvels as a snack slithers across the rock.   No feet and no place to get traction, the cast-down replica of Satan's pride moves, again with little effort, across the stone path.  The ship, with no effort, makes it way through the sea, driven by the wind and sometimes, contrary to the wind.   And, finally, Solomon's last example, the most amazing of all, the man with a maid.   The movement of love, when it is true love, is so special to observe and beautiful to unfold.   Again, with little or no effort by the man.  He simply moves the way he moves while he and the maid dance calmly across life's stage.   These things amazed Solomon because they were not easily explained.  They were the result of God's active hand and creation.  He, God, makes them all happen.  The scientific laws of God's creation and the love He places in the heart all make movement and action otherwise dormant and stagnant.     God is at work and He wants us to pause, like Solomon, to behold His wonder.   We may not understand it but we can explain it by God's care in creation and His sustaining providence.   God is amazing and the things we behold by Him should cause us wonder.