God's Creation (A Post from Wayne)

At a recent Life Action Summit at our church, one of the sermons included a description of the immensity of the heavens (Psalm 19:1 “The heavens declare the glory of God…”). As an example, light travels at 186,000 miles per second! In the snap of your fingers, light could travel around the earth seven times. Light could travel between the earth and the moon in a little over a second.

If you peer into the heavens at night and look at the stars, the nearest star is 4.3 light years away (how far light will travel per year at 186,000 miles per second). The nearest galaxy to ours is (Andromeda) 2.5 million light years away! By the Hubble telescope, the furthest galaxy known to man is 13 billion light years from earth!  

It is estimated that the Milky Way alone contains 150 – 200 billion stars (Psalm 147:4 “He determines the number of the stars; He gives to all of them their names.”).

The sun is 333,000 times the size of the earth. A star (Eta Carinae) in our galaxy is 120 times the size of the sun. Astronomers have found beyond our galaxy an object somewhere between 40 – 200 billion times the sun!

Isaiah 40:12 “Who has measured the waters in the hollow of His hand and marked off the heavens with a span.” Of the definitions of a “span”, one is the distance between the tip of the thumb and the tip of the little finger (9 inches approximately).

Our God has measured out the heavens in nine-inch increments and named all the stars! Wow! And He calls us to pray without ceasing (1 Thess. 5:17). He stepped off His throne and took on flesh to reconcile those that would trust in Him.

Our, beyond our comprehension, powerful God cares for the helpless……… the widow, the orphan, the alien, the child. Jesus rebuked the disciples for their lack of sensitivity to the parents and adults bringing the children to Jesus to be touched by Him (Mark 10:13-16). “Let the children come to me; do not hinder them, for to such belongs the kingdom of God. Truly I say to you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God like a child shall not enter it.”

God used the prophet Hosea to witness to the Israelites of their sin (transgressing the Law) and particularly their abuses to the poor and downcast in society.

God has named the stars to the furthest reaches of the heavens and He is also concerned about you and me! How can we not be humbled! How can we not place Him in the rightful place on the throne of our hearts! How can we not be consumed with His Word and His presence! How can we not fully trust Him with our lives! How can we not rejoice in our deliverance (salvation)!

God (Father, Son, and Spirit) is worthy of our praise!