![]() The efforts in the Netherlands are just one example of this kind of human genius at work. It’s incredible, I think, to see these various projects that, by the common grace of God, human beings have successfully undertaken throughout human history. Now there’s something to be said, I think, for creativeness and human industry of this sort. So, in summary, this documentary highlighted how humans in the Netherlands are overcoming, over the past century or so, some really big obstacles with some monumental engineering marvels, an attempt to subdue nature, to get control over things, and increase the quality of life as the population grows. In fact, 17 percent of the Netherlands is in fact reclaimed land of this sort. They’ve been draining flooded lands for the last few decades, if not the last century, and they’ve also been taking sand from the North Sea and creating more land off the coast. It also showed how the Netherlands is addressing some of their space issues by simply creating more land. It showed how technology in farming, specifically lettuce farming, was leading to exponentially higher yields in a given year than might otherwise have been expected for the amount of land being farmed. It focused on some of the incredible water management strategies and facilities that literally cordoned off the North Sea, thus preventing devastating floods. ![]() ![]() Yet despite all of these challenges facing this really small northern European country, the documentary highlighted how human ingenuity is at work in overcoming a number of these obstacles. Therefore, flooding is always a persistent threat for the population of the Netherlands. Moreover, something like about a third of the Netherlands sits below sea level, as well as 90 percent of the second most populous city, Rotterdam. So, a lot of people packed into a relatively small space, at least by the Nebraska standards. It also contains roughly eight and a half times the population of Nebraska. The Netherlands is a rather small country it’s about a fifth the size of Nebraska. Much of the documentary focused not on the history of the Netherlands, although I suppose that would be interesting, but rather on how human ingenuity in the present is overcoming a number of challenges presently facing that country. Netherlands being a country in northern Europe, if you didn’t know where that was. One evening several weeks ago, Lori and I sat down and we watched a short documentary on the Netherlands. ![]() 9 But we see him who for a little while was made lower than the angels, namely Jesus, crowned with glory and honor because of the suffering of death, so that by the grace of God he might taste death for everyone. Hebrews 2:5-9, ESV At present, we do not yet see everything in subjection to him. Now in putting everything in subjection to him, he left nothing outside his control. You have crowned him with glory and honor,Ĩ putting everything in subjection under his feet.” Or the Son of man, that you care for him?ħ You made him for a little while lower than the angels “What is man, that you are mindful of him, Hear now the word of the Lord from Hebrews 2:5-9.ĥ For it was not to angels that God subjected the world to come, of which we are speaking.
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