"The Universe is One of God's Thoughts"

The Universe is one of God's thoughts.

That is a pretty profound statement, not to mention an amazing and humbling thing to meditate upon. At church we have just begun a series of the Trinity. Today's message was entitled "The Father: Powerful Creator". It was an amazing sermon that left me feeling greatly humbled and greatly rejoicing for the Creator of this universe cares about me, loves me and knows me by name.

I want to spend this week really meditating on my notes and the Scripture passages that relate to the powerful sermon that I heard this beautiful Sunday morning.



This photo is entitled "The Blue Marvel" It was a picture taken from the Apollo in space. It is a beautiful portrate of this planet. Stop and think about this:
Every human that has ever lived. Every emperor, king, slave, civilization, war, disease, famine, every man and woman, every young couple in love, every child that is born, every good time, every laugh, every sorrowful moment, every death, every single thing involving man has happened on this earth. This earth has seen the rise and fall of powerful civilizations.

This earth is only a speck, a "pale blue dot" on the expanse of the this solar system, even larger this galaxy, even larger still in this universe.

In church I was sitting there just watching this presentation, a journey through the universe, and scale pictures of the earth compared to the sun, compared to Jupiter, its place in the Milky Way, and in the Universe over all...it is mind blowing.

Let me briefly start from the beginning, and then continue on with this story throughout the week.

"In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Now the earth was formless and empty..." In the beginning God created the heavens, the universe. I challenge you all to go on the internet or to a NASA website and begin to look through pictures of the universe and do a little light reading on the sites and you will begin to understand how unfathomably vast the universe is.



That is simply the Milky Way Galaxy, notice where the sun is in proportion to our galaxy.

"Then God said, 'Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the eart, and over all the creatures that move along the ground." Gen. 1:26'

We were created after every star was hung in the sky, every solar system, galaxy and the universe was complete. He loved us enough that after he named every star, we were created in His image, He breathed breath into our lungs.

How humbling is it to know that we are so unfathomably minute compared to all of the universe, and yet to God Himself. I cannot even begin to describe what is does for my soul to know that That God loves me! The very God that the Bible describes as a God wrapped in light, is the same who sent His Son to this earth, who stepped down from Heaven from His throne and into time and space to live and die for me.

I sit here with tears in my eyes typing these words because His love is so amazing!!!

Well this post has run long enough, I will be sharing more as the week progresses. God bless and may you all bbe continually reminded of the love of God and His role in your life, your creation and how small you are. As I said in my previos post our lives are but vapors.

God Bless,
Alex