The recently completed Masters Golf Tournament was sponsored in large part by IBM Analytics.  They touted their use of high capacity, well-programmed computers to do awesome things.  They can measure the noise made by individual railroad car wheels to determine which ones have a crack.  They can analyze MRI images to find even obscure potential anomalies.  They can instantly provide information from prior arrests, cases, motor vehicle registrations, and events to help solve crimes.

Often during the televised tournament this year, I was swimming about in the Gulf of Mexico, contemplating ocean waves.  All of the wonderful IBM applications pale when compared to the sovereign and providential care that God has in sending every single ocean wave onto its designated coastline all over the earth. Imagine the number of waves that have hit any single point of land in the last year.  Multiply that by the number of shore points around the world and by the millions of years when oceans have been on this world. Crashing or calm, surf-able or float-able, each wave – containing lots of water, varying amounts of salt, sea junk, and life forms – is prepared and propelled by a loving Father’s hand.  Each wave is unique, like a snowflake. God’s creative power is beyond any computer’s capability.

And, God not only knows where the train car wheel cracks are, he can fix them.  He not only knows where health problems are, he can heal them.  He knows who committed the crime, where the perpetrator is, and what the criminal needs to know in order to have his sins forgiven.  Analytics, indeed.