Season 2 Podcast 76 Freedom and Nature

A New Voice of Freedom

Nature and Freedom

It is ironic that science, by expanding our understanding of natural laws, actually increases our freedom, yet it is science that denies the existence of freewill. It is part of their Flatland mentality. Even a cursory study of nature shows how all life forms are designed for their maximum freedom. Study the hawk and see how it spreads its confident wings in the azure sky and soars on the wild winds. With its broad back to the bright sun, its telescopic eyes scan the spinning world below looking for prey.

Now study the slow myopic turtle that crawls creepily over the earth, carrying his heavy home on his back.

The turtle does not need the eye of a hawk, and the hawk does not need the shell of a turtle. All of God’s creatures are designed for maximum freedom to ensure their survival and to expand their potential in their own environment. Each of itself experiences its own joy and freedom. If evolution furnished those things, it is through law not luck or accident. The hawk and turtle were designed in the evening before their morning of creation. Laws were appointed to carry out those designs. I feel that all conscious creatures have intelligence and have some capacity for joy in life, no matter how small they are or how insignificantly they are regarded.

We have all seen young animals frisk and frolic like children and birds soar on the winds. Also, all animals have different degrees of intelligence. The elephant, for example, is sometimes human-like in its behavior. If anyone has observed a squirrel solving a problem, one would be certain that intelligence, not mere instinct was involved.

I saw a squirrel once drop to his belly and crawl to the rim of the Grand Canyon and for a full 20 minutes stare into the vast vacuity as if wondering where the world had gone.

However, only man, as a child of God, with high intelligence, has freewill like the gods to know good from evil, to organize laws, to study the stars, to fly to the moon, to classify the elements, to comprehend the flora and fauna of the earth, to explore the seas, to have dominion over the earth, to collect genealogy, to search for truth, or to contemplate the mind of God.

But there is a price. Only man can sour to the heights of joy and praise God or sink to the depts of despair and contemplate suicide.

I suppose at times when the trial of our faith is at its height we have all felt like Job, and at other times when our blessings seem to be the most abundant we have felt like King David.

But that is what it is like being human. Only higher man can reach the heights of joy and the depths of despair and know that God hears both cries.

Animals do not contemplate death, but neither do they contemplate the resurrection. Animals live life to the limit of their consciousness, but only man looks forward to eternal life with God. The price of being human is high, but the rewards of being the children of God are immortality and eternal life with God if we will only but keep his commandments.

We are living in the last days. No man knows when Christ comes again, but every Christian knows that he is coming. Through John the Revelator, Christ said, “Be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life.” In another place he said, “Hold fast till I come…And I will give him the morning star.”

At Christ’s birth, the stable was not decorated for Christmas. The stable became the ornament. Without the Christ child it was just a stable. As we prepare for Christmas, let me invite you to put Christ first. Everything else is mere decoration.