Blow-Away Butterfly!
A while back, researchers at Oxford took on the challenge of studying Red Admiral butterfly flight. Their discoveries of the butterfly’s extraordinary agility and complexity in flight were quite humbling. Not only do they use many different wing strokes, they use them on successive wing beats!
One researcher commented in the prestigious Nature journal, “This butterfly uses all the known aerodynamic methods that anybody has conjectured, Rather than progressing from one sort of wing stroke to another as flying speed changes – the way horses go from walk to trot to canter – the butterflies behave more like Olympic gymnasts doing floor exercises. If we moved like the red admiral, city sidewalks would be filled with people moving by hops, skips, jumps, cartwheels and back flips!”
The butterflies manage sophisticated maneuvers with a minimal brain and neurological control system. “If engineers ever understand how they did this,” Dr. Zbikowski wrote, “there will be a revolution in aeronautics. And get this! They have air-flow sensors on their feet! Just before they take off they lift a foot and test the air!”
God ingeniously created the Red Admiral. It’s a great catch for predators, but God made breakthroughs in aeronautics to give it the abilities and the place in His plans that He wanted it to have.
Have you been yearning for breakthroughs, for you or for others, or both? God is THE master of breakthroughs. He is fully aware of your situations and wants to be fully involved. If you need a breakthrough, look steadily to God–and God alone. He is able to do the unthinkable.
“Behold, I am about to do something new; even now it is coming. Do you not see it? Indeed, I will make a way in the wilderness and streams in the desert...” - Isaiah 43:18,19
As we follow His leadings day-by-day, God will take the wilderness and desert areas of our lives and do unthinkably good.
Don Miller