Posted by
Jimmy Carter on Tuesday, February 13, 2007 3:07:09 PM
Imagine there are no vessels. No cups, bowls, vases, pitchers, urns, or ewers exist. Imagine sitting in your favorite chair wanting a drink of water. In order to quench your thirst you would have to walk to the kitchen sink and capture the running water with your hands or tilt your head in the stream to ensnare a mouthful.
Imagine that you would like to stay seated in that chair and have a drink of water at the ready on the end-table next to you. Where would you begin to solve this delimna?
First, you must
want a solution. Without the
want you would have no incentive or motivation to begin the toil it would take for the solution.
Next, you must have the
will to act. Without the
will the
want will remain just that.
The next step in the solution process is an idea of the desired end result, a
design. Without a
design, there is no plan for a solution and more than likely you would end with no solution at all.
Now, you are at the
design phase of the exercise. There are numerous questions that need to be answered. How big will the vessel be: 1 oz., 8 oz., 12 oz., 2 lts., 15,000 gl. tank? Since the
purpose of the vessel is to rest on the end-table, the former is useless and the latter imprudent. What will the vessel be made of: glass, paper, plastic, tin, ceramic, cardboard, or gold? What will the color be: white, red, blue, all three, or clear? Will the vessel have a handle, two handles, or four? Will it have a spout, a lip, or a lid? Will it be tall and slender like a rose vase or short and wide like a saucer? Will it have any ridges, decorative designs, patterns, or drawings? There are many more questions to answer before coming to a final
design.
Imagine you
design the standard clear 12 oz. highball glass. Now, you take the necessary steps to make your glass. You gather all the needed ingredients: sand, flint, spar, metallic oxide, iron, flux, etc... Next, combine the substances, grind it, heat it, spin it, shape it, etc...to your desired results. Are you now finished with the solution? Actually, the glass is absolutely worthless unless it is serving its original
purpose of holding your water and placed on your end-table (without out doing this, it is only potential).
Imagine you climb on top of your house and threw the glass into the middle of the street. What would happen to the glass? It would break into many pieces. Imagine you climb on top of your house and threw the glass into the middle of the street. What would happen to the glass? It would break into many pieces. Imagine you climb on top of your house and.....would it break into many pieces everytime? Absolutely. Would it break into the same number and sizes of pieces? Never.
Imagine you take a broom and dustpan and sweep every minute and miniscule piece of glass that was attached to the original, climbed on top of your house and threw it into the street. What would happen? The pieces would disperse and some would break further. Imagine you take a broom and dustpan and sweep every minute and miniscule piece of glass that was attached to the original, climbed on top of your house and threw it into the street. What would happen? The pieces would disperse and some would break further. Everytime? Would the pieces ever land into the original
design? Never. Why?
There are billions upon billions of atoms that compose the original glass. There are an infinite number of arrangements for those atoms as illustrated by throwing the glass off the top of the house, but only one that would create the original glass. That original glass was not created by accident or happenstance. There was a
want for that glass, there was a
will for that glass, there was a
design for that glass, culminating into a
purpose for that glass.
Do you have a
design? Yes, it is called deoxyribonucleic acids, DNA. Of the
billions upon billions of atoms that compose your DNA and the infinite number of arrangements that could be made with them, there is only
one order that makes you. Your DNA does not happen by accident or there would be more than one you. Your Creator
wanted you,
willed Himself to
design you for a
purpose here at this time and place. Are you serving your
purpose for why you are here?