Sovereignty and Dinosaurs

Two weeks ago I took my son to see The Walking With Dinosaurs Arena Spectucular. It was nothing short of being spectacular!

The show is a live documentary experience that combines animatronics, puppetry, costumes, and lighting effects. All of the dinosaurs presented are life sized and pain-stakingly realistic. You literally feel as though you are sitting in an NBA arena watching real living dinosaurs walk around in front of you.

But as I watched these replica beasts walk around in front of me I couldn’t help but think of the sovereignty of God.

These majestic animals haven’t walked the earth for nearly 60 million years- give or take 59.985 million years depending on your view of creation. But why would such amazing animals go extinct long before man ever walked the earth (again depending on your interpretation of Biblical creation)?

God creates everything for His purposes. God is sovereign and governs the affairs of the universe and uses things like catastrophe, evil dictators, weather, nations, and even animals to carry out his will. But why create the dinosaurs, let them successfully fill the earth for tens of millions of years (…that whole creation time thing again…), only to kill them all off mysteriously and suddenly?

What was the dinosaurs purpose? What was the purpose of destroying them? What is the reason for them not being around today? We’re they simply, somehow, preparing life on earth for man?

My thoughts could travel forever on this train but I’ll spare you the trip.

In closing, I’m not an ‘all dogs go to heaven’ type guy, but someday when all the wrongs of this world have been right’ed and we are face to face with Jesus, I wouldn’t mind seeing a dinosaur or two. Riding one wouldn’t be so bad either- just say’n.