Some scientists, according to a story by Harold Bredesen, decided to develop a fish that could live outside of water.� So, selecting some healthy red herring, they bred and crossbred, hormoned and chromosomed until they produced a fish that could exist out of water.
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But the project director wasn't satisfied.� He suspected that though the fish had learned to live on dry land, it still had a secret desire for water.
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"Re-educate it", he said.� "Change its very desires."
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So again they went to work, this time retraining even the strongest reflexes.� The result?� A fish that would rather die than get wet.� Even humidity filled this new fish with dread.
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The director, proud of his triumph, took the fish on tour.� Well, quite accidentally, according to official reports, it happened--the fish fell into a lake.� It sank to the bottom, eyes and gills clamped shut, afraid to move, lest it become wetter.� And of course it dared not breathe; every instinct said no.� Yet breathe it must.
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So the fish drew a tentative gill-full.� Its eyes bulged.� It breathed again and flicked a fin.� It breathed a third time and wriggled with delight.� Then it darted away.� The fish had discovered water.
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And with that same wonder, men and women conditioned by a world that rejects God, discover Him.� "For in Him we live and move and have our being" (Acts 17:28� NIV).
