Twinkle Twinkle

Yesterday my friend Doug posted the link that NASA has released of the largest picture ever taken.  Have you seen it?  If not, take a look at the link below.  I watched it.  And I was blown away.

http://www.theloop.ca/nasa-just-released-the-largest-picture-ever-taken-and-you-wont-want-to-miss-it/

So let me talk about the stars for a minute.  You know those little twinkling things in the sky that we usually pass under every night on our way from here to there without so much as giving them a second thought..  You know the sun, our closest star?  It is 93 million miles away, a simple fact we learn in elementary school before we have much of a concept of what a million is. 

But think of it…if we spend a few hours outdoors on a hot day this distant star burns our skin.  Burns.  It BURNS our skin, from 93 MILLION MILES AWAY.  That’s evidently some kind of power that we sort of take for granted.  Oh yeah, we think, the sun.  Sunscreen.  Whatever.

Seriously, 93 MILLION MILES away?  That’s some heat.  That is some intensity.  And that is ONE star.  It’s ONE single PIECE of a magnificent creation that sailed into being from the mind and mouth of God. 

And God breathed out galaxies and galaxies FULL of them  (Andromeda was the one in the photograph) AT THE SOUND OF…HIS...VOICE.    He could have been holding His hands behind His BACK on this one for heaven’s sake!  He has that kind of power? And imagination? And intention? And then, asks us (ASKS us) if He can come to live in us. Oh, LORD, what might happen if we let Him have His way?  What in the world might He do?  Don’t you dare think it would be insignificant.  It may very well be that the will of a human is the most rock solid thing in all creation.  Yet yielded to His plan, and made available for what He could do through a yes?  I can’t even begin to imagine what all He would do with THAT.