Thoughts on Heaven (Part 3) - Bigger and Better

Psalm 19 tells us that the heavens are declaring the glory of God. As I travel, I often show a slide show of universe slides in order to show the massiveness of God’s creation. Too often, we just look at our everyday world and fail to look up and imagine the awesome works of our Creator.

A few years ago, I began looking into how big our Universe actually is. As a former math teacher, I got my pencil and paper out and began crunching numbers. We know that most agree that we have 9 planets orbiting around the sun in elliptical paths. This is our Solar System. Scientists say that our sun is but one of between 100 billion and 300 billion other stars in our Milky Way galaxy. If you looked at a diagram of the Milky Way, we would be on the outer portion of the swirl. I began wondering how long it would take to travel to the center of the Milky Way. I found it in light years but thought it would be interesting to see how long it would take if we could fly in a jet airplane going 600 mph. After some calculations, the numbers were astounding. I found that it would take approximately 40 trillion years to get to the Middle of the Milky Way from the outer rim.

If this was not mind boggling enough, the Milky Way is thought to be only one of 100 billion other galaxies.

When I consider the heavens declaring the glory of God, I rarely think of their vastness. I rarely remember that God spoke these things into existence. This is the same God who created physics and mathematics to explain our world and who created the beauty of the sunset. This is the same God who is in control of our eternal destiny and He bids us to know Him more.

In Isaiah, it talks of how God measures the universe with the span of His hand. As massive as it all is, it cannot contain our God. He is bigger and better than anything we can ever imagine.

Maybe you should jump on a NASA website and just marvel at our Universe and then remember that God did this to show His incredible glory and majesty. Let us remember that the God who thought all this up hears your prayers and knows you by name. Oh how wonderful and awesome is our God!

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2 Responses to “Thoughts on Heaven (Part 3) - Bigger and Better”

  1. Dave, on March 7th, 2006 at 12:21 pm Said:

    I miss that slide show. It always makes me think of this picture and accompanying press release:

    http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/newsdesk/archive/releases/2004/07/image/a

    It’s worth the read.

    -Wo

  2. Dave, on March 7th, 2006 at 12:24 pm Said:

    i suppose it would be nice if i made it a real hyperlink so you don’t have to copy and paste.

    Link To Hubble Ultra Deep Field

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