Reading: Psalms 123 - 127
My Verse: "Unless the LORD builds the house,
those who build it labor in vain.
Unless the LORD watches over the city,
the watchman stays awake in vain" (Psalm 127:1)
I just watched a science video on what would happen or what is thought might happen if two stars hit each other. The narrator said they would both go into oblivion! I question that, how can they know what is happening so very far away? And what exactly is oblivion? I was fascinated with the final words of the narrator, "a pair of stars say farewell to eternity." What does that mean?
Can something go into oblivion? Can something become nothing? Fascinating questions! LORD God, You spoke into being all that is. "All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made" (John 1:3). Did You speak into being all that is, from nothing?
It is interesting how even great scientists who claim to be atheists struggle with explaining themselves without inserting God into their explanations. Stephen Hawkins, an acclaimed scientist and atheist did this when he said, "I believe the universe is governed by the laws of science. The laws may have been decreed by God, but God does not intervene to break the laws." There is now even a theory call "Intelligent Design" for those that realize the universe is too orderly to have come into being by some random big bang. But they do not want to acknowledge that You, LORD God are the intelligence behind all that is!
They do not want, as Hawkins stated here, to believe that You do intervene in our existence. Your word, the Bible tells us how You have intervened throughout time as we know it. Yet, man strives to live their lives without You. They go about building their houses, fighting their wars but without You - it is only a striving after the wind! - a chasing after wisps of dreams that are never realized.
As Solomon, considered the wisest man to have ever lived, said in Ecclesiastes.
"For to the one who pleases him God has given wisdom and knowledge and joy, but to the sinner he has given the business of gathering and collecting, only to give to one who pleases God. This also is vanity and a striving after wind" (2:26).
"For who knows what is good for man while he lives the few days of his vain life, which he passes like a shadow? (6:12)
Oh, LORD God, I truly believe what You say in Ecclesiastes 3:11 "Also He has put eternity into man's heart." I remember as a very young child having this sense of there being so much more to my world than what I perceived through my senses. I know too that this is the source of man's discontent and lack of peace. All men know in the depths of their hearts that they are eternal beings created by You!
Thank You, LORD God, that we do not need to live empty lives, striving after something that is unattainable. You gave us a purpose - "Fear God and keep his commandments, for this is the whole duty of man" (Ecclesiastes 12:13). You gave Your Word to guide me, teach me and encourage me - to reveal Your purposes for me. (Jeremiah 29:11)
Ditat Deus - God Enriches!
My Verse: "Unless the LORD builds the house,
those who build it labor in vain.
Unless the LORD watches over the city,
the watchman stays awake in vain" (Psalm 127:1)
I just watched a science video on what would happen or what is thought might happen if two stars hit each other. The narrator said they would both go into oblivion! I question that, how can they know what is happening so very far away? And what exactly is oblivion? I was fascinated with the final words of the narrator, "a pair of stars say farewell to eternity." What does that mean?
Can something go into oblivion? Can something become nothing? Fascinating questions! LORD God, You spoke into being all that is. "All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made" (John 1:3). Did You speak into being all that is, from nothing?
It is interesting how even great scientists who claim to be atheists struggle with explaining themselves without inserting God into their explanations. Stephen Hawkins, an acclaimed scientist and atheist did this when he said, "I believe the universe is governed by the laws of science. The laws may have been decreed by God, but God does not intervene to break the laws." There is now even a theory call "Intelligent Design" for those that realize the universe is too orderly to have come into being by some random big bang. But they do not want to acknowledge that You, LORD God are the intelligence behind all that is!
They do not want, as Hawkins stated here, to believe that You do intervene in our existence. Your word, the Bible tells us how You have intervened throughout time as we know it. Yet, man strives to live their lives without You. They go about building their houses, fighting their wars but without You - it is only a striving after the wind! - a chasing after wisps of dreams that are never realized.
As Solomon, considered the wisest man to have ever lived, said in Ecclesiastes.
"For to the one who pleases him God has given wisdom and knowledge and joy, but to the sinner he has given the business of gathering and collecting, only to give to one who pleases God. This also is vanity and a striving after wind" (2:26).
"For who knows what is good for man while he lives the few days of his vain life, which he passes like a shadow? (6:12)
Oh, LORD God, I truly believe what You say in Ecclesiastes 3:11 "Also He has put eternity into man's heart." I remember as a very young child having this sense of there being so much more to my world than what I perceived through my senses. I know too that this is the source of man's discontent and lack of peace. All men know in the depths of their hearts that they are eternal beings created by You!
Thank You, LORD God, that we do not need to live empty lives, striving after something that is unattainable. You gave us a purpose - "Fear God and keep his commandments, for this is the whole duty of man" (Ecclesiastes 12:13). You gave Your Word to guide me, teach me and encourage me - to reveal Your purposes for me. (Jeremiah 29:11)
Ditat Deus - God Enriches!
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