Fish, God, and Men

Do you know why fish can't survive outside the water? As I understand it from my Chemistry professor, it's because water has a higher concentration of oxygen than air does. It's not that fish don't need oxygen, or that their gills couldn't get it from the air. They can. There just isn't a large enough percentage of oxygen in the air to sustain the fish before they died. They would need to take in much larger amounts of air than they would of water to get adequate oxygen, and in the time that it would take to get that much air, they would die.

For some reason, this came to mind as I was thinking while reading "Redeeming Love". Michael Hosea constantly talks to God and asks Him questions - specifically regarding his wife, Angel. In the book, Michael often talks and talks for a paragraph and then God answers Him with just a sentence or two - a few words. As I was reading, I wondered why God didn't say more, why He didn't elaborate, especially when Michael was struggling so much to understand. Then it occurred to me, maybe words are like oxygen. We have such a small "concentration", if you will, of wisdom in our words that we feel the need to talk and talk and talk to fully communicate our message. In contrast, God has all wisdom. The "concentration" is so high that He can say just a few words and communicate everything we need to know.

So instead of being discontent and angry with God for not saying as much as we would like, maybe we should listen to His quiet, simple messages - for therein is found all the wisdom we will ever need.