October 13
The Wonder of It All!
God makes a huge dome for the sun—a superdome!
Psalm 19:4 (The Message)
Show your strength, God, so no one can miss it. We are out singing the good news!
Psalm 21:13 (The Message)
I look out my window at the majestic Cascades of Oregon—Mount Bachelor, Broken Top, the Three Sisters and more. I spy Mount Washington, Three-Fingered Jack, Mount Jefferson, and way out there ... Mount Hood. They are massive. A couple weeks ago, we spent 45 minutes driving just to get to the bottom of one of the closest. Then we invested another half hour riding two chair lifts to the top—and what a view! Now, however, I think of these huge heights as mere pimples on a blue marble … and I realize what that makes me! My mind spins back to yesterday’s sermon, and again, I am awed—truly awed.
Yesterday, Pastor John reminded us of the scientific facts: our sun can hold 130-million planet earths within its sphere. Yet our sun is not a big sun. When I got home, I searched the web for more facts, and I found Pastor Mark Adams quoting astronomers who say there are over 12-quadrillion galaxies each containing over a billion stars.
I remember a trip we took as a family to the MacDonald Observatory in West Texas. There we looked heavenward in the heart of the night—a star party they called it. Stars filled the sky! But even more impressive was the statement our guide made. Everything we saw with our naked eyes, he said, was in our galaxy—the Milky Way—except for one object. That was a tiny speck off to one side. That speck, barely visible, was Andromeda, the nearest galaxy to our own. I had to strain to see it. Now I’m realizing that on that marvelous desert night my eyes detected light from only two of the12-quadrillion galaxies.
Then I remember something, Charles Swindoll, the President of Dallas Theological Seminary once said: There are more stars than there are grains of sand on every beach on our planet.
I am in awe.
This is big stuff, but my God is bigger than all of this ... and He loves me. He loves all of us. Now, that’s amazing!
Strike up the band. It’s time to party; and I feel like singing!
Father, Wow! You are an awesome God! Thanks for giving me the big picture of Your Creation. I praise Your name. Hallelujah! Amen.
The Wonder of It All!
God makes a huge dome for the sun—a superdome!
Psalm 19:4 (The Message)
Show your strength, God, so no one can miss it. We are out singing the good news!
Psalm 21:13 (The Message)
I look out my window at the majestic Cascades of Oregon—Mount Bachelor, Broken Top, the Three Sisters and more. I spy Mount Washington, Three-Fingered Jack, Mount Jefferson, and way out there ... Mount Hood. They are massive. A couple weeks ago, we spent 45 minutes driving just to get to the bottom of one of the closest. Then we invested another half hour riding two chair lifts to the top—and what a view! Now, however, I think of these huge heights as mere pimples on a blue marble … and I realize what that makes me! My mind spins back to yesterday’s sermon, and again, I am awed—truly awed.
Yesterday, Pastor John reminded us of the scientific facts: our sun can hold 130-million planet earths within its sphere. Yet our sun is not a big sun. When I got home, I searched the web for more facts, and I found Pastor Mark Adams quoting astronomers who say there are over 12-quadrillion galaxies each containing over a billion stars.
I remember a trip we took as a family to the MacDonald Observatory in West Texas. There we looked heavenward in the heart of the night—a star party they called it. Stars filled the sky! But even more impressive was the statement our guide made. Everything we saw with our naked eyes, he said, was in our galaxy—the Milky Way—except for one object. That was a tiny speck off to one side. That speck, barely visible, was Andromeda, the nearest galaxy to our own. I had to strain to see it. Now I’m realizing that on that marvelous desert night my eyes detected light from only two of the12-quadrillion galaxies.
Then I remember something, Charles Swindoll, the President of Dallas Theological Seminary once said: There are more stars than there are grains of sand on every beach on our planet.
I am in awe.
This is big stuff, but my God is bigger than all of this ... and He loves me. He loves all of us. Now, that’s amazing!
Strike up the band. It’s time to party; and I feel like singing!
Father, Wow! You are an awesome God! Thanks for giving me the big picture of Your Creation. I praise Your name. Hallelujah! Amen.
posted by Craig Soderquist at 5:58 AM
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