Thought For The Day

To See God. . .

I have just been looking at 50 photographs from Hubble, the telescope in deep space. I think they are quite recent. I never cease to be amazed at the diversity of God’s creation. Whether it is the beauty of the under sea world, the vast color variation of birds, or the magnificent colors of planet Earth (just stuff I have seen today), God is uncomprehendingly amazing beyond His grace.

And so it is with the Hubble Space Telescope—a bright silver, 43 ft. (13 m) long, 14 ft. (4.2 m) diameter cylinder, with a wide open eye at one end and a flap-like eyelid that, for practical purposes never, ever closes. Since shortly after its launch on April 24, 1990, that eye has stared and stared and stared into the deep, and in the 25 years it’s been on watch, it has revealed that deep to be richer, lovelier and more complex than science ever imagined. (TIME)

“Ever imagined?” Well, maybe. But many of us have been talking about the richness, loveliness, and complexity of God’s creation for a lot longer than 25 years. I know, we have not been able to see the detail and depth provided by this amazing telescope, but our minds have imagined the beauty of Heaven, and it has been an endless review of rich loveliness more complex than the mind can conceive. We have seen the beauty of the Earth, of God’s image in the people of that Earth, and our minds have embraced the complexity of infinity contained in a cosmos of unimaginable dimensions, yet smaller by far than the breadth and depth of God’s llove.

Imagine, just imagine, the sheer audacity of writing it off to “chance.”

One Comment

  • dp

    Amen, I sometimes wonder why someone would hate God so much to make up stuff when the evidence of creation is so mercifully revealed.

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