I haven't done a blog post in awhile and decided to do one on a devotion that my Mom had read last night. It's a book by Max Lucado called: "Live Loved" and I absolutely love the life lessons that he gives. And I'd like to share this one with you:
It's entitled: "Loved by God the Creator".
"Venture away from the city lights on a clear night, and look up at the sky. That fuzzy band of white light is our galaxy, the Milky Way. One hundred billion stars. Our galaxy is one of billions of others! Who can conceive of such a universe, let alone infinite numbers of universes?
No one can. But let's try anyway. Suppose you attempt to drive to the sun. A car dealer offers you a sweet deal on a space vehicle (no doubt solar powered) that averages 150 miles per hour. You hop in, open the moonroof, and blast off. You drive nonstop, twenty-four hours a day, 365 days a year. Any guess as to the length of your trip? Try seventy years! Suppose, after stretching your legs and catching a bit of sun, you fuel up and rocket off to Alpha Centauri, the next closest star system. Best pack a lunch and clear your calendar. You'll need 15 million years to make the trip.
Don't like to drive, you say? Board a jet, and zip through our solar system at a blistering six hundred milers per hour. In 16.5 days you'll reach the moon, in seventeen years you'll pass the sun, and in 690 years you can enjoy dinner on Pluto. After seven centuries you haven't even left our solar system, much less our galaxy.
Our universe is God's preeminent missionary. "The heavens declare the glory of God" (Psalm 19:1 NIV). A house implies a builder; a painting suggest a painter. Don't stars suggest a star maker? Doesn't creation imply a creator? "The heavens declare His righteousness" (Psalm 97:6). Look above you...
If God can make a billion galaxies, can't he make good out of our bad and sense out of our faltering lives? Of course He can. He is God."
What a powerful God that we serve. And that is no understatement. :)
Psalm 40:5 "Your thoughts toward us cannot be recounted to You in order; if I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered."
Hebrews 1:10-11 "You, LORD, in the beginning laid the foundation of the earth, and the heavens are the work of Your hands. They will perish, but You remain."
2 comments:
Wow...I was watching the stars for several minutes last night. And then you posted this today. ;)
The first verse that always comes to mind is this: "When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained; What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him?" ~Psalm 8:3-4
His majesty far surpasses anything fallible here on earth.
Love,
Kaleigh
Wow...that was pretty awesome then. :) Stars are so spectacular to watch.
Love that verse, sis! It's so fitting, because creation speaks of His handiwork.
Another relevant verse that I found was Psalm 19:1-4 "The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands. 2 Day after day they pour forth speech; night after night they reveal knowledge. 3 They have no speech, they use no words; no sound is heard from them. 4 Yet their voice[b] goes out into all the earth, their words to the ends of the world.
Thank you for commenting, Kaleigh.
Julianna
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