Let’s explore a different path together. Because of where we are going we will need to be very small, so in your mind’s eye, let’s shrink down to the size of a water molecule. Ready? Wait, how big is a water molecule, anyway? It must be very tiny. We are getting smaller and smaller-much, much smaller. Slightly more than 1.5 sextillion water molecules fit into one small drop of water. That’s a 1 with 21 zeros after it. Think of it this way. From all the molecules in a single drop of water we could give every person on earth (that’s nearly 7 billion people) 240 billion molecules of water each. If you put that much water on your tongue, you wouldn’t even know it’s there, because it would be only a tiny drop, so to speak, in the ocean of water already on the tongue. Obviously a water molecule is unbelievably tiny.
Water Molecule
Now that we have shrunk down small enough, let’s travel. Starting out with a bunch of water molecules being pulled up from the ground into the stem of a rose, we find ourselves traveling very fast inside an enormous system of pipes. The walls of the pipes are just a blur because of our speed. WOW, what a ride! We pass thousands of valves, and we keep transferring from one pipe to another in a zigzag pathway. Each transfer to another pipe takes us through another open valve. This is amazing. Notice how with each transfer to another pipe we pass into smaller and smaller ones? Hey, we are going a lot slower now. All of a sudden we pop out of the pipe into a brightly lit cavernous space. Huge crystal-clear columns filled with liquid soar up and connect with a very high ceiling. Inside the columns big green shiny blobs float around. They turn the light coming into the cavern emerald green. The columns are all dripping and wet, and we can feel the humid air rushing past. Where is it going? Everything is moving. Oops, we just got caught up in a jet stream. Before we hit the wall, we can see thousands of tiny openings to the outside. Oh boy, here we go. We just got blown through a little opening in the leaf, and now we are outside again. Time to return to reality.
On earth such magical trips have to be totally imaginary. What will be our travel limitations in heaven and the new earth? I do hope we can explore both the small and the big. Don’t you?