He was first | Daily Leader

He was first

Published 1:00 pm Thursday, April 30, 2026

O the age of contemporary know-how! I’m grateful to reside within the time of such fast development, however I admit it additionally regularly introduces me to a studying curve of which I really feel fairly restricted! Just after I assume I’ve tailored to a brand new “gadget,” a more recent one comes together with extra buttons and choices, relegating me to out of date ownerships.

The author of Ecclesiastes asserted that there’s nothing new below the solar. It’s after I cease being overwhelmed by my very own listing of technological developments that I notice God, who’s exterior of time, definitely launched all “man’s” discoveries earlier than man ever even thought of them.

The Wright brothers made historical past after they launched the primary artificial plane. The preliminary flight was solely recorded in seconds, however aviation was launched that day. However, God stuffed the sky with birds of all makes and sizes. One species of vultures can fly at an altitude of 37,000 toes — that’s a bit over seven miles! The widespread crane can fly over 33,000 toes. God gave man the will to fly and the inspiration when He gave birds wings.

The nice energy supply of electrical energy was found by a number of scientists — Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Edison are most likely those most acquainted. They can solely say they “harnessed” it as a result of it has all the time been part of thunderstorms. The streaks of lightning that we see can comprise a whole lot of thousands and thousands of volts of present, and when a streak passes via the clouds it heats the air round it to a temperature hotter than the floor of the solar! That’s a God-size supply of energy! 

Batteries and battery chargers assist maintain each family working in our era. Surely that’s a man-made contribution, however our nice grands spent a part of a twilight night final week chasing lightning bugs. Those tiny winged bugs carry their God-made chargers with them, and we are able to’t actually clarify how they work. An insect flying with its personal hooked up flashlight — a God unique! 

Man is credited for making underwater journey doable with diving gear, however God made a spider that may dive to the river ground, create a bubble, carry air into it after which make the bubble its underwater dwelling.

Radar is a family phrase utilized in a wide range of methods and was “discovered” in 1935, however bats are born with the flexibility to make high-frequency sound waves to navigate and hunt in whole darkness. God gave them their very own radar capabilities.

The World Wide Web (www) has made crossing oceans and continents with communication so simple as speaking to a next-door neighbor. Yet, there are distant areas that the net hasn’t reached. Prayer is the miracle communicator that God gave His kids, and there’s no place that it can not journey to or contact. Prayer has no limits in its attain!

Space journey has made it to the forefront once more with astronauts touring across the moon, however Jesus ascended into heaven within the midst of His followers (no house go well with or car) over 2,000 years in the past. His kids will do the identical when He calls on our resurrection energy to elevate us from the graves and into His everlasting kingdom.

As I’ve thought-about the almightiness of God, it’s given me a e-book title that may maintain some superb info: “Things God Thought of First.”

Camille Anding, The Daily Leader, P. O. Box 551, Brookhaven, MS 39602.