Does God Count? Part 1

Believe it or not, some people do math for fun. I am one of those people. I memorize squares of numbers, square roots of numbers, reciprocals. I memorize the location of mile markers on the highway and I know how many seconds per mile at variety of speeds. With the last two things, I can be traveling down the highway with my son, and always give an accurate answer to the question, “Dad, how long before we get there?”

But as I read the Bible, I notice that there are no places that God did math. Squaring of a number is not found, let alone square roots. I cannot find where God does math.

So, I went to the source and prayed for wisdom. This is the impression, insight I got. If you have a group of 24 people, and you arrange them in 4 rows of 6, someone else can come along and count 4 rows and 6 columns, multiply 4 times 6 and get 24. In doing that, the person only had to look at or touch 9 people (one of the first four gets touched twice). That is to say, 15 of the people were place holders, and never got touched. God would prefer to count and touch each person, be intimate with each person.

But, after thinking about this for awhile, I was reminded of the verse Matt 10:30. But even the hairs of your head are all numbered. Another way to say that is, “Even the hairs of your head have been counted.” God does not use the average value of hairs per square inch and multiply it by the number of square inches on your head and get an estimate. The hairs on our head are counted. He touched each one.

More to come.