1 This is what the Lord says:
“Heaven is my throne,
and the earth
is my footstool.
Where is the house you will build for me?
Where will my
resting place be?
2 Has not my hand made all these things,
and so they
came into being?”
declares the Lord.
“These are the ones I look on with favor:
those who are
humble and contrite in spirit,
and who tremble
at my word.
Let's translate to our modern-day terminology. God said,
"I live in heaven; it is My throne; I made the earth. It's a footstool
before My throne. I am bigger than you are even capable of thinking. I am
God."
Stop and meditate on this. Perhaps you will catch a
glimpse of His awesome glory! He created the earth and the universe. He
positioned the stars with His fingers! Most of us do not comprehend the
vastness of the universe. Because I have a background in engineering, I've
researched some of the fascinating facts we know about the vastness of God's
creation.
Light travels at the speed of 186,000 miles per second
(not per hour but per second). That is roughly 700 million miles per hour. Our
modern airplanes fly approximately 500 miles per hour.
The moon is roughly 23),000 miles from the earth. If we
were to travel to the moon by plane, it would take us twenty days. But light
travels there in 1.3 seconds!
Let's continue. The sun is 93 million miles from the
earth. To reach the sun by plane, your journey would last over twenty-one
years. Think of how long the past twenty-one years of your life has been. Then
imagine flying that long without stopping to reach the sun! For those of you
who prefer driving, it would take you roughly two hundred years, without any
rest stops! Yet it takes light only 8 minutes and 20 seconds to travel from
the sun to the earth!
The nearest star is 4.5 light years from the earth. To
reach it by plane would take approximately fifty-three billion years! That is
53 with nine zeros behind it! Yet light reaches it in only four and one-half
years!
The average star you can see unassisted with the naked
eye is 100 to 1,000 light years away. I wouldn't even attempt to calculate the
amount of time it would take for a plane to reach it. But think of it: Light
traveling at a rate of 186,000 miles per second takes one thousand years to
reach the earth. That means there are stars you see at night whose light
emanated from them in the days of King Richard's reign in England, and it has
been traveling at the rate of 700 million miles per hour ever since, without
slowing down! That light originated seven hundred years before America became
a nation!
Let's expand this further. In the mid-nineties NASA's
Hubble Space Telescope sent back pictures of galaxies that were 7,000 light
years away! Our minds cannot even comprehend distances like these.
Are you getting a greater glimpse of His glory?
Dear Lord, all we can say is WOW! Your glory is beyond
what we can imagine. Thanks for all that You have done for each of us. In Jesus’’
Name, Amen.
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