A man sat in the early morning darkness.  The stars lit his face with imperceptible glow.

The chained dog, below the man’s perch, barked at something imperceptible.

Standing, the man spoke to the dog, “What do you see?”

At that the dog ceased its barking and a vague tail could be perceived to wag.

With a kind word.  With a peaceful heart, wisdom shut the mouth full of teeth.

What the dog perceived, moved with stealth into the obscurity from which it came.

The dog settled quietly to wait for another perception of breech to his domain.

And the man sat to marvel:

“The promise to Noah has come to me.  My sin is stronger than the teeth of my adversaries.”

“Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the earth. 2The fear and dread of you will fall on all the beasts of the earth, and on all the birds in the sky, on every creature that moves along the ground, and on all the fish in the sea; they are given into your hands. 3Everything that lives and moves about will be food for you. Just as I gave you the green plants, I now give you everything.”  (Genesis 9:)

So, we have victory over that which comes against us; even the stubbornness of our folly among the things of this world, even the strength of our faith in eternity, even the Promises of the Holy One.

So, the testimony of God’s majesty moves among the men of this place of testing.  So, we are without excuse.  For the very things of our standing are plainly visible to all who will desire to perceive them.  So, will all men be void of excuse!

If even this lowly and vile excuse of a Christian can see these things and understand, how much more so the righteous of God among us?  I was not, am not, and have little.  Any man can become far more than I, and this by the Grace of God in Christ Jesus His Holy Son.

Answer this question:  Why do you marvel at such things?  Why do they not swim about with gladness within your very own soul?