The mole rat is a most unusual creature. It lives underground. Its legs are short and thin. A fourth of its muscles are found in its jaws.
The mole rat also has hairless skin with no pain receptors. Oh, and it doesn’t get cancer and lives for up to 31 years.
There are two other characteristics that set the mole rat apart from other rodents. It is almost blind and has very small lungs. Yet, these are the very things that help it survive in its harsh environment.
Sometimes it helps to be less than perfect.
How’s that again? We don’t want to be less than perfect. We work out in the gym to build strong muscles. Clairol keeps our hair a perfect shade of brown. And, don’t tell, but the occasionally tummy tuck hides the fact that we eat more than we should. Nothing less than perfection will do for the modern man or woman.
Yet, if the mole rat had sharp eyesight, strong muscles, and well-developed lungs, it would die when the drought came. It couldn’t survive the hard times if it was perfect in every way.
Instead, the mole rat is perfect for the role it must lead.
Genesis 15:16 tells us:
“And they shall come back here in the fourth generation, for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet complete.”
This passage reflects God’s instruction to Abram. In essence, God says Abram’s descendants would be slaves in Egypt until time to destroy the Amorites. Only then would they return to fulfill God’s plan. God’s chosen people were being sent to live underground, just as the mole rat scuttles to and fro in the confines of the dirt.
Isaiah 65:1 says:
“I was ready to be sought by those who did not ask for me; I was ready to be found by those who did not seek me. I said, ‘Here am I, here am I,’ to a nation that was not called by my name.”
The gentiles did not know of God’s love for them. Their pain receptors were missing. Yet, God still loved them and wished to draw them to his side. Just as the mole rat cannot feel the roughness of its burrow, so the gentiles could not sense the depths of their sin.
James 3:1 warns us:
“Not many of you should become teachers, my brothers, for you know that we who teach will be judged with greater strictness.”
There is a reason men are blinded to the depths of God’s truth. Once our eyes are opened, we can no longer claim ignorance of our sin. Our judgment becomes commiserate with our level of knowledge, and our future in eternity rests on our own shoulders. The mole rat is content in its underground home because it can see no further than the end of its nose.
However, once our eyes are opened, and we are no longer blinded, we can know the promise found in Romans 10:20:
“I have been found by those who did not seek me; I have shown myself to those who did not ask for me.”
We will know, as Titus 1:2 says:
The “hope of eternal life, which God, who never lies, promised before the ages began.”
Man was once blinded by God, but in our new understanding of him, we can know his glory and majesty forevermore. There is no end to the mysteries he wishes to reveal unto us.
When God opens our eyes, we become more than perfect in him.
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