This morning between an early morning men's group and staff meeting, I was listening to a sermon by Francis Chan where he described a video that zoomed out from earth to the universe. From this, I found myself watching youtube videos on the immensity of the universe, and I googled the Hubble Ultra Deep Field. Crazy. Just crazy. It blows my mind. Each point of light, even the most minute points of light on here, are not stars, but GALAXIES. The ones that are close up, as you see, are each beautiful, and yet each point of light represents a span of millons of light years, each span containing billions of stars.
The Psalmist didn't have any telescopes; the stars that he saw are the same stars we see with our eyes at night. Even in complete darkness away from any light pollution, we're seeing .000000000000000000001 of what's actually there. This was his response:
O LORD, our Lord,
how majestic is your name in all the earth!
You have set your glory
above the heavens.
From the lips of children and infants
you have ordained praise [b]
because of your enemies,
to silence the foe and the avenger.
When I consider your heavens,
the work of your fingers,
the moon and the stars,
which you have set in place,
what is man that you are mindful of him,
the son of man that you care for him?
...Yet we are God's chosen people, dearly beloved. The same God that made all this purely for his pleasure and our delight, dwells in the midst of us. Crazy.
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