No-Seeums

After a few days in a coastal area I have decided we have friendly gnats.  When the weather gets warm around these parts in the summer months, black gnats come in droves.  They do not bite, they just aggravate.  They enjoy seeing how many can buzz around one ear before getting a hand swipe, or maybe congregating around an open mouth to see if they can withstand the blowing which is sure to come.  But, over on the coast, the gnats are called "no-seeums' because they bite wherever they land and remain largely invisible as they do.    

I suppose these gnats have some value and some significant place in the order of creation.  Maybe they are feed for other flitting creatures.  They surely were not created randomly without purpose, but finding it is difficult when they are feeding on a bare arm, or neck, or even in a head full of hair.   I am sure the Creator could tell us the purpose of these flying, biting pest.  

I remember one story from the Moses narrative where a plague of gnats came as a sign from God that it would be a smart choice to let the Hebrews go from Egypt (Exodus 8:10:19).  Pharaoh obviously had a hard heart and a hard head.  While I am not always privy to the purposes of God, it makes sense to accept the fact that He does not create without purpose.  This word of belief includes things like gnats, and even folks like you and me.