Cleverness engineered
One Saturday, I was driving up the freeway from Sydney towards Gosford to spend some time with my family. I drove along the 6-lane freeway, surrounded on either side by the walls of rock through which the freeway had been forged.
After a while, I noticed that the barrier which divided the north lanes from the south wasn't the steel type of barrier I'm used to seeing. Instead, the freeway engineers had somehow managed to make the barrier out of the same type of rock that surrounded the freeway. Huh. Pretty clever.
Seriously. I certainly couldn't have done that. I couldn't even begin to think about how to do it. I mean, we're talking about very big rocks here. ‘Boulders’ is probably a more accurate term. Maybe, way back when they first built the freeway, they simply left that part of the rock there and cut around it so it was left behind as a barrier. Or maybe they only did it recently (it all looked kind of new), and they actually had to fetch boulders/rocks from somewhere close by. Either way, it's pretty clever.
I know, I know. ‘So what?’ I hear you ask.
Well, as I was pondering the cleverness of freeway engineers, I came over the crest of a hill and descended towards Peats Ferry Bridge, which crosses the Hawkesbury River. As I looked at the bridge, I had what you might call ‘a moment’. My eyes refocused on the water behind and around the bridge. It was a beautiful day, and the sun was glistening across the water. There were mountains covered with greenery off to my left, and some little islands off to my right. It's a very pretty part of Australia, and the view was stunning.
It reminded me how clever God is. He created mountains, rivers and islands, and people who are clever enough to build freeways and barriers. But at the same time, he cares about us so deeply that he engineered reconciliation by sacrificing his son for us. We certainly could not have done that.