Oh Bright and Morning Star
http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/europe/07/21/monster.star/index.html?hpt=C2#fbid=wq-StM7UBal
Havent written a devotional in a while but this one caught my attention. Specifically the part of the article which quotes scientists as believing that they knew the upper limit to the size and power of stars. And that this thing is 10 million times brighter than our sun. By the way if you don’t read that article, then the below wont make sense. I suggest you read it first. Its short I promise 🙂
To put it into context here is what the Bible has to say around stars. Just some things to think and pray about. We forget so easily the size of God or the kind of being we’re dealing with. We forget He commands and its done. We forget how supremely alien His mind is to behave the way He does. Why breathe these things out of His mouth? Why not mould them from something or whatever else He could have come up with. My theory is that God breathes out impossible things so that when we look up at the sky and realise how many billions of impossible things God does just by breathing…maybe…maybe…just maybe…
someone will believe that’s how
- How impossibly deeply God loves them?…or (that brightly, that BURNINGLY!)
- How easily God can turn your life around?….or (there are billions of these things floating around in the sky because God took one deep breath..what can He do for me)
- How bright (pure) God is and exactly what He’s asking from us when it is written “be ye perfect for your Father in heaven is perfect” (that was for me, Father how far I have to go!!! But You oh Lord, will get this thing done in me. You will change me!)…or
- How careful God has to be around us when He occassionally lets humans catch glimpses of Him in various ways, or we’d just burn up…or (sometimes God doesn’t show up and He stays away for your own good…He tones Himself down…some of us should learn that skill…toning ourselves down when necessary…that one’s for me too)
- How it is also written…”behold I tell you a mystery…, we shall not always sleep, but we shall be changed, for in the twinkling of an eye, we shall be changed” (what will we be like. This sinner who puts on incorruptible….what could I have done to be loved like that!)
I’ve put below the verses that speak to the points above. By the way they are in a specific order
Genesis 1:16Genesis 1:16
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Then God made two great lights: the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night. He made the stars also.
Psalm 33:6Psalm 33:6
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By the word of the LORD the heavens were made,And all the host of them by the breath of His mouth.
Isaiah 37:16Isaiah 37:16
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“O LORD of hosts, God of Israel, the One who dwells between the cherubim, You are God, You alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth. You have made
heaven and earth.
Psalm 84:11Psalm 84:11
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For the LORD God is a sun and shield;The LORD will give grace and glory; No good thing will He withhold From those who walk uprightly.
Psalm 74:16Psalm 74:16
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The day is Yours, the night also is Yours; You have prepared the light and the sun.
Isaiah 34:4Isaiah 34:4
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All the host of heaven shall be dissolved, And the heavens shall be rolled up like a scroll; All their host shall fall down As the leaf falls from
the vine, And as fruit falling from a fig tree.
Deuteronomy 4:18-20Deuteronomy 4:18-20
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18 the likeness of anything that creeps on the ground or the likeness of any fish that is in the water beneath the earth. 19 And take heed, lest you lift your eyes to heaven, and when you see the sun, the moon, and the stars, all the host of heaven, you feel driven to worship them and servethem, which the LORD your God has given to all the peoples under the whole heaven as a heritage. 20 But the LORD has taken you and brought you out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt, to be His people, an inheritance, as you are this day.
Matthew 17:2Matthew 17:2
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and He was transfigured before them. His face shone like the sun, and His clothes became as white as the light.
Revelation 1:16Revelation 1:16
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He had in His right hand seven stars, out of His mouth went a sharp two-edged sword, and His countenance was like the sun shining in its strength.
Isaiah 30:26Isaiah 30:26
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Moreover the light of the moon will be as the light of the sun, And the light of the sun will be sevenfold, As the light of seven days, In the day
that the LORD binds up the bruise of His people And heals the stroke of their wound.
Revelation 21:23Revelation 21:23
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The city does not need the sun or the moon to shine on it, for the glory of God gives it light, and the Lamb is its lamp.
Matthew 13:43Matthew 13:43
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Then the righteous will shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. He who has ears to hear, let him hear!
Revelation 22:5Revelation 22:5
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There will be no more night. They will not need the light of a lamp or the light of the sun, for the Lord God will give them light. And they will
reign for ever and ever.
Psalm 8:2-4Psalm 8:2-4
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2 Out of the mouth of babes and nursing infants
You have ordained strength,
Because of Your enemies,
That You may silence the enemy and the avenger.
3 When I consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers,
The moon and the stars, which You have ordained,
4 What is man that You are mindful of him,
And the son of man that You visit him?