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    Underneath the Surface 

 
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Today's Text:
"...The LORD does not look at the things man looks at.  Man looks at the outward appearance, but the LORD looks at the heart." 1 Samuel 16:7 NIV 

 
Underneath the Surface
by Daniel and Tammy Cinzio
 
 

An iceberg is an amazing phenomenon. Drawing its name from the Dutch word ijsberg, literally meaning ice mountain, icebergs litter the cold oceans with reckless abandon. Though generally found around the arctic and Antarctic regions, the most travelled iceberg ever found was off the coast of Bermuda!! 

An iceberg is simply a piece of ice made of pure fresh water that has broken off from a glacier or frozen river by a process known as calving. The calving occurs when the glacier reaches the sea. The ice mass pushes out into the water and then, by the power of tidal rise and fall, storms or other phenomena that cause the ocean levels to change, the ice chunks break off. Glaciers are usually multi-layered; the bottom layer rubs against the ground when the icy river moves and therefore generally travels much slower than the upper layers.  However, when all the layers travel together, they will generally break off simultaneously, forming a large iceberg. 

Icebergs come in all shapes and sizes, and no two icebergs are ever the same.  They range in size from "Growlers" which are less than a metre high and five metres long, up to the "Very Large" which are over seventy-five metres high and two hundred metres long.  Growlers get their name from the sound they make when they plunge down into the water while moving around in sea swells, but all icebergs are noisy!  When icebergs calve (break apart) it is loud.  Icebergs however may make very loud booming and cracking sounds without any sign of calving or movement. The sounds are thought to come from the sudden formation of cracks due to changing temperatures and tidal pressure.  So there is nothing peaceful or quiet about these floating giants!

Most icebergs are white, although some may appear blue, green, brown or black, or have combinations of these colours.  Icebergs are mostly white because the ice is full of tiny air bubbles. The bubble surfaces reflect white light giving the iceberg an overall white appearance. Ice that is bubble free has a blue tint.  A green iceberg is usually an iceberg that has flipped over - the green colour has come from the algae that has formed on the ice while it was under the water.  Occasionally airborne dust or dirt eroded from land ends up on the glacier surface, eventually forming a noticeably darkened brown or black layer within the ice of a floating iceberg.  Some icebergs have had so many colours in them that scientists have referred to them as rainbow icebergs.

Above the surface of the water icebergs are impressive, but it's what's under the ocean that makes them truly magnificent.  What we see above that water is actually only about ten percent of the entire iceberg.  Ninety percent of the great lump of ice is hiding underneath the surface.  So if we chopped an iceberg up into ten pieces, nine of those pieces would be under the water and only one piece would be sticking up for us to see.  The reason for this is that icebergs are made out of water that is only slightly less dense than the sea water they are in - so they float, but only just!

 

You've heard the saying, "the tip of the iceberg".  It is usually used in reference to a very small amount of information shared or revealed in relation to the whole story or situation.  People are like this.  Taking someone at "face value" is a term we often say but rarely follow.  We tend to "sum people up" by looking on the outside, on the surface.  We see clothes, hairstyle, glasses, facial expressions, the things people say or do in situations and like to guess motives - give our own reasons and assessments for why people act and think the way they do.


But our Creator God has made it abundantly clear in 1 Samuel 16:7 that in reality, what we see is just the tip - we have a very small amount of information upon which to base our assessment. 

God on the other hand tells us in the same verse that He sees the entire picture.  He sees underneath, around, through and even knows when a hair falls from our body.  No secret thing is missed and no action or thought goes unnoticed - God sees right to the heart of the matter.  And while we spend a lot of time on the exterior, the bible tells us that what God really cares about is what's going on underneath the surface. 

Aren't you glad it's Him who makes the final judgment on us?

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Did You Know?

A baby eel is called an elver, a baby oyster is called a spat.
A blue whale's tongue weighs more than an elephant.
Starfish have eight eyes - one at the end of each leg. 

Tammy's Tips 
Ocean in a Bottle
A great handheld device used with any ocean or water song
Remove sticker from water bottles 
half fill bottle with water 
colour the water blue using a few drops of food colouring 
add a few squirts of detergent 
put araldite, two part apoxy glue around top of bottle and screw on lid - this ensures that it can't be opened. 
Shake and there you have an ocean in a bottle - complete with foam. 
You could also add sequins or small plastic fish for an extra effect.
 


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