A SPECK IN THE UNIVERSE
By Ada Brownell
 |
| Image courtesy of Pixabay |
Recently a
Christian astronomer spoke at our church. He has a giant telescope and goes out
on his driveway in the middle of the night and takes pictures of what he sees.
His photos of the universe have been published by some of the most prestigious
scientific journals in the world, including those of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
Dr. Richard
Hammer is a chemistry professor at Evangel University, and his work with astronomy
began as a hobby. Now he teaches astronomy as well.
After
showing slide after slide of the sun, moon, stars, and planets spreading
endlessly across the sky, he showed us several awesome photos and pointed out
how earth is only a little speck humankind can see through the windshield of
our technology.
He reminded
us David asked, “What is man that God is mindful of him?” (Psalm 8:4).
A whole
universe, with galaxy after galaxy, and God chose this wad of whirling dirt moving at just the right speed
with the correct amount of gravity and oxygen as the place to form a man and
woman—His creation. We all know those humans rebelled and didn’t believe if
they ate of the forbidden tree that they would die. After all, the serpent
laughed and said, “You won’t die.” But not long afterward, they stood beside a
dead son and then they died.
The last slide I remember Hammer showing was a
photo of bloody hands, representing the nail-scarred hands of Jesus coming to
deliver humankind from sin and death, and I couldn’t help but remember we are
only a speck in the universe.
That night
after we returned home I read 1 John 3: 1-3:
“How great is the love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be
called children of God! And that is what we are! The reason the world does not
know us is that it did not know him. Dear friends, now we are the children of
God and what we will be has not yet been made known. But we know that when he
appears we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is. Everyone who has
this hope in him purifies himself, just as he is pure.”
John says it
all.
Brief Book Spotlight:
Peach Blossom Rancher, an historical
romance
The sequel to The Lady Fugitive; Book 2 in the
Peaches and Dreams series.
Suspense, romance, humor, murder, insanity, hope.
John Lincoln Parks yearns for a wife to
help rebuild the ranch and eyes Valerie MacDougal, a young widow who
homesteaded, but also is an attorney.
Will the doctor ever be released from the
asylum? Will John marry Valerie or Edwina Jorgenson, the feisty
rancher-neighbor he constantly fusses with? This neighbor has a Peeping Tom
whose bootprints are like the person’s who dumped a body in John’s barn. Will
John even marry, or be hanged for the murder?
Learn more about Ada:
http://inkfromanearthenvessel.blogspot.com/p/about-me.htmlhttp://inkfromanearthenvessel.blogspot.com/p/about-me.html
No comments:
Post a Comment