God Of The Mariana Trench

Film director, James Cameron, has helped put the Mariana Trench in the news with his recent seven mile plunge to the bottom of the deepest point on earth. This trench, located in the western Pacific Ocean off the Philippines, has a water pressure of eight tons per square inch--1000 times greater than atmospheric pressure at sea level. Cameron is only the third person to reach the bottom of the trench (called the "Challenger Deep"), and he did so 52 years after two men did so in a U.S. Navy submersible called the Trieste. While he has reported that there were no signs of life, that it was a "barren, desolate lunar plain" (AP, 3/26/12), God has placed amazing, other-worldly-looking creatures miles deep in the oceans of the earth. Cameron's is almost certainly the first of many more trips to the "Challenger Deep." Who knows? Maybe future voyages will reveal crush depth-defying vertebrates and other scientific improbabilities (much information fromhttp://deepseachallenge.com). 

It is amazing that man has discovered the ability and technology God has made available to accomplish a feat like this. It is also amazing to think that God created areas on this earth, like other parts of the Mariana Trench, filled with exotic, often colorful sea life that He knew it would take thousands of years for man to discover. Yet, He did that. It is further proof of His existence and insight into what kind of God He is, a God of such intricate designing and endless power. 

It is also a testimony to the omnipresence of God. How great if Cameron would have quoted David's words as he sat upon the floor of "Challenger Deep": "Where can I go from Your Spirit? Or where can I flee from Your presence? If I ascend to heaven, You are there; If I make my bed in Sheol, behold, You are there. If I take the wings of the dawn, if I dwell in the remotest part of the sea, even there Your hand will lead me, and Your right hand will lay hold of me" (Ps. 139:7-10). 

Jaroslav Vazda wrote a beautiful song, "God of The Sparrow." It is a song praising God's power and implicitly reminding us of the awe we owe Him. How wonderful to know that the God of the Mariana Trench is the God we can approach and the God with whom we can have relationship!