Hey
Gang: Do you think David was pumped
when he wrote these words? Do you think
you could write these words if you had not already experienced the majesty of
God? Have you ever had an experience
that literally left you speechless?
Like standing at the foot of the Grant Teton Mountain, or experience the
birth of a child for the first time. How
about the absolute awesomeness of a rainbow?
In recent
months there has been a growing interest in 'blood moons' (special lunar
eclipse) as they pertain to prophecy. It
was interesting to me that the writer/researcher went to the NASA archives
to find the data for his article.
You do
remember that NASA did research back to the beginning of time to learn the
perfectness of God's times tables? In their research they found a glitch in
their equation - a glitch that one of the researchers solved when he told the
story of Joshua 10:13. Here God made the sun and the moon stand still as a sign
to Joshua.
In Psalm
103, the Psalmist glorifies God from a heart that is bursting at the seams with
praise. He says, "Bless the Lord all my soul and all that is within me?"
(Vs 1). Have you ever felt that
way? In verse eleven we find a
comparison, where God declares that the mercy of God is as great as the
distance of the heavens above the earth.
Man's scope of the universe is limited by the technology available to
penetrate the depths of the universe.
New galaxies are being discovered with each advance of the telescope.
(Hubble telescope found 100 new galaxies).
Scientist
have measured the distance from the earth to many bodies in the heavens. The distance to the moon is about 240
thousand miles. Can you imagine how the
astronauts, whose mission was to walk on the moon, must have felt when they knew
blast off meant a trip of more than a half million miles and no repair shops in
route?
The sun is
about 93 million miles from the earth; but, keep in mind the sun, moon and
planets are all in our solar system and there are vast systems beyond. The closest star beyond the sun is Proxima
Cenauri, which lies 4.22 light-years away (24.7 trillion miles). How far is a light-year? The distance light travels - 186,000 feet per
second! Are you beginning to get a
picture of how great the mercy of God is?
In 1977,
scientists launched two space probes called Voyager 1 and Voyager 2. Voyager 1 travels at 37,100 miles per hour
and is now over 9 billion miles away from the earth. Now get this, if we were on board Voyager 1,
it would take 75,000 years for us to get to Proxima Centauri. Is your comprehension levels being stretched
as to the vastly of God's love for His children?
In verse 17
David says, "But the lovingkindness
of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting on those who fear
Him". And put this on your
bathroom mirror this morning -"As far and the east is from the west,
So far has He removed our transgressions from us" (Ps 103: 12).
Soooo, my
young inquisitive seekers of truth, be advised that we live in an awesome
universe created by God, but what awaits His children in the heavenlies makes
all this pale in comparison! All of this
is available "To those who keep His
covenant and remember His precepts to do them" (Ps 103:18). Wow, what an awesome God we serve.
Blessings,
Gramps
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