AUGUST 7, 2012
Heavenly
Exclamation!
Read: 1 Kings 8:22-30
The
heavens declare the glory of God. —Psalm 19:1
In August 2011, NASA released a composite image from the
Hubble
telescope that left people smiling. The image is of two galaxies
beginning
to collide. The collision looks like a heavenly exclamation point
(!). The
latest statistic I’ve read says there are about 100 billion observable
galaxies in the universe. Each galaxy has hundreds of billions of stars,
and
more galaxies are being discovered.
When I saw the exclamation-point image on CNN, I was
reminded of
our awesome Creator. The heavens exclaim His glory (Ps. 19:1), but
He is even greater than the heavens He has made. After Solomon built
a temple
for the Lord’s presence to dwell in, he prayed: “But will God
indeed dwell on
the earth? Behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens
cannot contain You. How
much less this temple which I have built!”
(1 Kings 8:27). He knew that if the
heavens couldn’t contain God’s
presence, the temple he had made surely couldn’t
contain Him.
The Lord is so much greater than our finite minds can
grasp. Yet He
has made it possible for us to know Him through His Son Jesus
whom
He sent to live on this earth, to die for us, and to be raised. When we
believe in Him, our lives join the heavens in proclaiming His glory!
Sing praise to God
who reigns above,
The God of all
creation,
The God of power,
the God of love,
The God of our
salvation. —Schutz
In
creation we see God’s hand, and in redemption we see His heart.
Source:
Our Daily Bread 2012
