What a Mighty God We Serve – Part Two
Don’t commit what J. B. Phillips in his book, Your God is too Small, called “the sin of reductionism.” Don’t try to put God in a manageable size. He warns against putting God in a box, thereby limiting Him by who and what we think He is. To accept Him as the God of the Bible is to be awe struck by Him.
“For the word of the Lord is right, And all His work is done in truth. He loves righteousness and justice; The earth is full of the goodness of the Lord. By the word of the Lord the heavens were made, And all the host of them by the breath of His mouth. He gathers the waters of the sea together as a heap; He lays up the deep in storehouses. Let all the earth fear the Lord; Let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of Him. For He spoke, and it was done; He commanded, and it stood fast.” (Psalm 33: 4 – 9).
Break out fragments of the result of that text and observe with awe. Look up at the night sky and observe Jupiter. It is more than 1,300 times the size of the earth. Larger than a composite of all the rest of the members of our solar system. It travels at an equatorial speed of nearly 30,000 miles per hour. Awesome!
Look up at the night sky and observe Jupiter. It is more than 1,300 times the size of the earth. Larger than a composite of all the rest of the members of our solar system. It travels at an equatorial speed of nearly 30,000 miles per hour. Awesome!
Look at the southern hemisphere and you will find the wondrous star Antares. It has a diameter of approximately 300,000,000 miles. Awesome!
Observe our Milky Way. This one galaxy consists of many billions of stars. Jeremiah the prophet said, “the host of heaven cannot be numbered.” (Jer. 33:22) There are millions of such galaxies. Scientists say these stars are all “restlessly swarming about among one another under the spell of their own inertia and the complex pull of their neighbors on every side.” Some travel at the speed of 200 miles per second. Our sun, dragging its planets with it, lumbers along at about 12 miles per second. It is marvelous that there are no collisions that might set off a cosmic chain reaction to destroy it all. The energy is there to do it. Our sun burns the equivalent of 11 zillion tons of high-grade coal per second. What a design! What an awesome Designer!
Elohim, the Strong One, with unlimited energy and power set it all in motion. Before Him my heart bows in awe. We dare not approach Him with a shrug and a yawn.
Pause now and establish or renew your devotion to Him.