Yeah, we took a quick excursion from this month’s destination in Tirana, Albania to Athens. There’s nothing quite like seeing a place with history that extends to Biblical times. It kind of got me thinking.
The city certainly looks quite different nowadays, but the apostle Paul looked at these same mountains.
He was [supposedly] questioned on this [Mars] hill.
Do you think he walked on this particular street?
Is it possible that there are any molecules of water left in this sea that he contacted when shipwrecked? (I know, I’m a bit weird for this one.)
It’s just cool being in a place where someone famous made a piece of history. What did they touch, see, or experience in this place? What of that still exists? How do I get to touch, see, or experience those same things?
Then, in an unremarkable moment at the beach, I had profound thought. I was still thinking about Paul and other famous people who have left their fingerprints in various places…
Wait. [As I’m fingering some rocks.] God literally has left His fingerprints all over nature! In the indentations of these stones, the patterns of the fallen olive leaves around me, even in the configurations and rhythms of the waves in the Mediterranean waters. How amazing is it that I get to touch these fingerprints of God and leave mine in the same places?
Stop and think about it. The world we live in was totally dreamed up by the most important being in existence, and it has His fingerprints all over the place! Open your eyes today to see God in the natural, the “mundane” around you.
