Moonbi’s Magnetic Hill

At Moonbi, Australia, is a strange place. It hosts a ‘gravity hill’, a phenomenon previously unknown to me. Wikipedia lists many around the world, including three in England. They are hills on which items apparently defy gravity. Sure enough, we parked our car facing down the hill. Putting it in neutral, the car rolled up the hill. Even water rolled up it. Very strange. Sites of other magnetic hills have helpful signs and large plastic U-shaped magnets to emphasise the point.

Cranks and experts in the paranormal offer a variety of imaginative explanations, as is their custom. For example, one suggests these places are fissures in the space-time continuum. The reality is a little less interesting but still worth noting. The landscape around them misleads the mind, creating an optical illusion. The horizon is obscured, so fixed reference points are absent. When one appears to be standing at the top of a hill looking downwards, one is in fact at the bottom looking upwards. It’s all a matter of perspective. 

When making an accurate judgement of where we are, we need to position ourselves in relation to fixed points, be this some landmark or well known mountain. Spiritually, we must understand our position and status in relation to eternity and God’s revealed word. Judging ourselves by culture’s shifting sands or our unstable emotions will always deceive us into thinking we are higher up or better positioned than we first reckoned. Water does not run uphill, and cars in neutral gear do not defy gravity. Neither do humans achieve their purposes and hopes outside of their Creator’s plans. 

“Now therefore, listen to me, my children,

For blessed are those who keep my ways.

Hear instruction and be wise,

And do not disdain it.

Blessed is the man who listens to me,

Watching daily at my gates,

Waiting at the posts of my doors. 

For whoever finds me finds life,

And obtains favour from the Lord;

But he who sins against me wrongs his own soul;

All those who hate me love death.”

Proverbs 8

Looking down hill.