Psalm 8:1-9
O Lord, our Lord, your majestic name fills the earth! Your glory is higher than the heavens. You have taught children and infants to tell of your strength, silencing your enemies and all who oppose you. When I look at the night sky and see the work of your fingers—the moon and the stars you set in place—what are mere mortals that you should think about them, human beings that you should care for them? Yet you made them only a little lower than God and crowned them with glory and honor. You gave them charge of everything you made, putting all things under their authority—the flocks and the herds and all the wild animals, the birds in the sky, the fish in the sea, and everything that swims the ocean currents. O Lord, our Lord, your majestic name fills the earth!
Your head can hurt (a
lot) when you start thinking of eternity and the vastness of creation. How can you wrap your mere mortal mind around
a universe which, from the moment it was created, has been expanding at a
blinding rate of about 4 million miles a day.
What’s interesting to me is how much impartial, non-agenda-driven
science corroborates Scripture, as opposed to stilted pseudo-science, which
attempts to disprove God’s presence.
Sometimes the connections are amazing.
In the case of the Big Bang, scientists of integrity have opined that the universe appeared all at
once. In the following scientific
explanation it not only says that, but also tacitly affirms the wording of Scripture,
that God created ex-nihilo; meaning there wasn’t anything in existance until
God spoke it into being:
The universe did not expand into space, as space did not exist
before the universe, according to NASA. Instead, it is better to think of the Big Bang
as the simultaneous appearance of space everywhere in the
universe. The universe
has not expanded from any one spot since the Big Bang — rather, space itself
has been stretching, and carrying matter with it.[1]
Nothing existed; God
spoke; everything existed and is growing.
How majestic, and consistent with let there be…and there was…and is…and ever shall be!
If there is any empirical
evidence to cure the kind of cosmic headache you get when you try to expain-away God, this is it;
believe Scripture, and watch the day’s events, not through the eyes and ears of
CNN and 21st century full of itself culture, but the eyes of one who
has the balcony seat and sees more than just the big picture, but also Who sees
the beginning from the end!
Let’s Pray Together:
Father, You are majestic, all-seeing, all-knowing, and all-powerful. How excellent is Your name! And though Your glory overspreads and oversees the entirety of Your expanding universe, you have chosen to be mindful of us. As the heavens declare Your glory, Your Son, Jesus declares Your mercy and grace.
For You Today
You chew on that as you hit the Rocky Road today. Have a blessed day!
For other posts on Psalm 8 see Wondering About the Big Stuff Part 1 and Part 2 and Part
3 and We
Mortals
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