If you’ve been paying attention on your walk through life you will have noticed something. The physical world is engaged in a “leveling” process. Water runs downhill. Dead animals and plants return to the soil. Hot coffee turns cold. Ancient cities disappear. Mountains are worn down to eventually become river deltas. Stars burn, nova, dim and collapse. Everywhere you look, things are breaking down, wearing out, slowing down, decaying, seeking the lowest common denominator. 

It’s the way of the cosmos. It’s nature. If you’ve been observant, you will have noticed this. If you haven’t, you at least accept it because it’s just the way things are. You even depend on it. 

The surprising thing in a universe that is decaying is not that there is death and evil, but the amazing abundance of good that exists simultaneously. What’s really eye opening, at least to me, is the great hope that exists in the midst of this winding down. The weeds struggling up through the pavement. Birds mating in our back yard. Children in the park adventuring on the monkey bars or jungle gym. Weddings and potlucks and food banks and all the various ways people love and care for each other. Everywhere there is a grand and glorious struggle taking place against this leveling force of the universe. If you’re lucky you will have observed this, too. 

If you haven’t noticed then I’m glad I called your attention to it because I’m convinced that if you look closely at this side of the picture something about God will be revealed to you. Not His existence. His personality.