GOD’S WORD FOR JUNE 3

GOD’S WORD FOR JUNE 3 ~ ~ Amos 5:8 ~ ~ “Amos 5:8

“He made the Pleiades and Orion; He turns the shadow of death into morning And makes the day dark as night; He calls for the waters of the sea And pours them out on the face of the earth; The Lord is His name.”

We’re on chapter three of John Piper’s book, “The Pleasures of God” with what he sees as the fourth of five reasons that God takes pleasure in His works of creation.

The fourth reason God rejoices in the works of creation because they reveal His incomparable POWER. In Isaiah 40:26, Isaiah looks up at the star-filled sky and says:

Lift up your eyes on high and see:

who created these?

He who brings out their host by number,

calling them all by name;

by the greatness of His Might,

and because He is strong in power

not one is missing.

If Isaiah was stunned at the power of God to create and name and sustain every star in the heaven that he could see, what would be his worship today if he were shown that the nearest of those stars in his sky, Alpha Centauri and Proxima Centauri are twenty-five million million miles away?

What would be his worship if he knew that what he was seeing in his night sky was a tiny patch of our galaxy which has in it a hundred billion stars, and that beyond our galaxy there are millions of other GALAXIES???

It seems in recent decades that God is enjoying keeping the astronomers on the edge of their seats with new glimpses of His power. In the fall of 1989, newspapers reported the discovery by two Harvard astronomers of a “Great Wall”

of galaxies stretching hundreds of millions of light years across the known universe. The wall is supposedly some five hundred million light years long, two hundred million light years wide, and fifteen million light years thick.

In case your high school astronomy has grown fuzzy, a light year is a little less than six trillion miles (6,000,000,000,000) This Great Wall consists of more than fifteen thousand galaxies, each with millions of stars, and was described as the “largest single coherent structure seen so far in nature.”

I say “was described” because three months later, in February 1990, God opened another little window for tiny man to marvel at again, and the newspapers reported that astronomers have discovered more than a dozen evenly distributed clumps of galaxies stretching across vast expanses of the heavens, suggesting a structure to the universe that is so regular and immense that it defies current theories of cosmic origins. The newly found pattern of galactic matter dwarfs the extremely long sheet of galaxies, dubbed the “great wall”—-now written without caps!, that was reported in November 1989 to be the largest structure in the universe. They now say the great wall is, in fact, merely one of the closest of these clumps, or regions, that contain very high concentrations of galaxies.

What is this universe but the lavish demonstration of the incredible, incomparable, unimaginable exuberance and wisdom and power and greatness of God!

WHAT A GOD HE MUST BE!!!!

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