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The Things of Earth
The Things of Earth
Creation is God’s Theatre
Creation is God’s Theatre
19 For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them. 20 For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse.
When we look at nature we see the divine unseen realities of the spiritual world made visible...
How?
We see the infiniteness of God...
Our brains struggle to comprehend how big the universe is because everything here on Earth, and even the Earth itself, is very small when compared to the immense scale of the universe.
So let's think about it a different way, using something we see and interact with every day… light.
While we imagine light to be instantaneous, photons of light actually take time to travel from one side of the room to the other.
In the time it took you to read this far, a photon of light leaving the Sun has travelled about 10 million kilometres – equivalent to travelling around the Earth 250 times.
Light that leaves our second nearest star, Proxima Centauri, takes just over four years to reach Earth and so we can define it as four light years away.
As such, if you were to look at Proxima Centauri, you would not be seeing the star as it is right now, but how it 'was' 4 years ago!
We see all things in the universe as they were in the past, whether they're on the other side of the room or the other side of the galaxy.
To take this concept further, the nearest large galaxy to us is Andromeda which is so big and close that you can see it in the night sky with your naked eye.
What you're really seeing is 1,000's of billions of stars in a configuration similar to our Milky Way. However, all of those stars are about 2.5 million light years away, which means you're seeing Andromeda as it was 2.5 million years ago.
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The whole universe is littered with galaxies just like the Milky Way and Andromeda, and using our most powerful telescopes we can see light from galaxies that has taken more than 13 billion years to reach us!
Since a photon of light left one of these galaxies, life sparked into existence and evolved. Dinosaurs ruled the Earth. Humans appeared, developed tools, art, science and technology, built the Hubble Space Telescope, put it into orbit and finally stopped that poor photon on its 13 billion year journey!
The universe is about 13.8 billion years old, so any light we see has to have been travelling for 13.8 billion years or less – we call this the 'observable universe'.
However, the distance to the edge of the observable universe is about 46 billion light years because the universe is expanding all of the time.
Imagine that a photon of light is emitted from a point on the edge of our observable universe.
While that photon has been travelling through space, the universe has expanded. We have moved away from the point where the light was emitted, and it has moved away from us!
Though the light might have only travelled for 13.8 billion years, the distance from us to the point it came from is, at present, 46 billion light years!
So how big is our universe? Well we don't really know, but it's big. So big that even light hasn't had time to cross it in nearly 14 billion years! And it's still getting bigger all of the time.
It was out of the overflow of God’s infiniteness that he made an unimaginably big universe.
God existed before the universe, he will exist after the universe…He is the one infinite being that began the universe and he will be the one infinite being that will close the chapter of the universe.
He is the only self-sustaining being that exists and everything that exists finds it’s foundation in Him.
16 For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things were created through him and for him.
16 For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things were created through him and for him. 17 And he is before all things, and in him all things hold together.
colossians 1:16
16 For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things were created through him and for him. 17 And he is before all things, and in him all things hold together. 18 And he is the head of the body, the church. He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in everything he might be preeminent.
16 For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things were created through him and for him. 17 And he is before all things, and in him all things hold together.
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Here’s the point: God is bigger than we thought He was…He is unthinkably big…at the point where you brain starts hurting to understand Him, that’s the tip of the iceburg of who God really is…He is infinite.
And let that land on you for a second....
If that is true, shouldnt our lives look a little different?
Shouldnt we have more faith when we pray?? If God really is infinite, meaning He has no limitations, shouldnt our prayers be
13 And they were bringing children to him that he might touch them, and the disciples rebuked them. 14 But when Jesus saw it, he was indignant and said to them, “Let the children come to me; do not hinder them, for to such belongs the kingdom of God. 15 Truly, I say to you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God like a child shall not enter it.”
13 And they were bringing children to him that he might touch them, and the disciples rebuked them. 14 But when Jesus saw it, he was indignant and said to them, “Let the children come to me; do not hinder them, for to such belongs the kingdom of God. 15 Truly, I say to you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God like a child shall not enter it.” 16 And he took them in his arms and blessed them, laying his hands on them.
I think this is what it means to have faith like a child...
A child, when he or she asks for something, they truly believe that their parent is able to provide…they arent doubting their parents power…they are asking in faith? Why…because they believe that their parent is awesome and able...
Shouldnt we have this type of faith? The type of faith where we believe that God is awesome and able? When we doubt in our prayer, the problem isnt God, the problem is that we lack a faith that is informed by the reality of God’s grandure—His infinitude.
Life is not about you, nor is it about me. It is about God. The purpose of our lives is not what we make of it, the purpose of our lives are to bring glory to God.
And your life and my life will bring glory to God regardless of whether or not we ascribe him glory. Either God will use our lives to bring glory to Him in saving us from our sin, or God will bring glory to his name by judging us of our sin.