The Stars Align for You and I Tonight

I am bad at parallels. Applying the Bible to my life comes rarely so when I have little epiphanies, I tend to run with them. It is powerful in my mind and heart when I can make a connection that I feel is important in my life and will benefit me to record it. Also, my memory is awful and I tend to forget things even if they are meaningful. I kinda see my brain as a game of telephone. Lets say each person telling the nexy represents a few hours in my brain. So, by the time the message gets relayed to the end of the line (when I need to recall it), it is either distorted or forgotten or something to the effect of me not getting it right. I hate that about my brain, but then there are things that just hit me and stick.

This weekend, I sat under the stars in a field that was pitch black all around and the best part is that the moon was no where to be found. Now I have sat under stars before but never in my life have I experienced this amazing of a view. As I mentioned, the conditions were perfect for laying under the stars. My friends and I just talked about why God would do this. We wondered aloud as to what the point of all this universe was when everything that 'mattered' was going on down on the earth. We even talked about how that may sound selfish, but I think you can understand my logic there. If his mission was on Earth and that idea of getting far from the Earth? Why would he do this? I think of the time when He told Abraham that his decendents would be as many as the stars in the sky. I know that they didnt have electricity and when it was night, it was night so I can guarantee that his view of the stars dominates the magnificant one that I had. Did God make it just for him? Or was he just showing off? Maybe He was just like hey when you think it is only about you on this Earth, let me knock you down on your back at night and remind how small you really are.

I have been taught all my life that stars are very far away. So far away that, many stars burn out during my lifetime but I will always see its light. As we sat on our blanket under the even great blanket of the stars, I wondered aloud again after we saw a shooting star that 'what if that actually happened 10 years ago and the light just now got to be visible to anyone on Earth.' That blows my mind. It simply rocks my world to try to comprehend that and to think how many shooting stars happen. If you break each one down, its like a monumental experience but they are so common in the Earthly viewpoint. Why does God do this? What is the point of all that? I heard Louie Giglio speak on the "How Great is our God" tour and he talked about sizes of stars that have been found and I won't go through them all, but the biggest star that we know of is compared sized in this way. Let's say the Earth is the size of a golfball, so the biggest star known has the circumference the same as the amount of golfballs it would take to stack to the highest point on Mt. Everest. That is crazy! And why? All so God could show if infinite majesty, perhaps. A friendly and beautiful reminder that He is mighty and simply good. One of my favorite quotes from CS Lewis seems fitting here. He said: "Nature never taught me that there exists a God of glory and infinite majesty. I had to learn that in other ways. But nature gave the word glory a meaning for me." Another reference from Genesis: "In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth...and it was good."

I love the idea of God being supreme and I know that so many times I try to box him in and make him fit the Brett mold that is convenient. I also love when he just hammers me with the truth that I have it all wrong. I think the a few verses in Job really sum up my night under the stars. Starting in Job 38:1 then skipping to 31-32: "The the LORD answered Job out of the storm. He said...Can you bind the beautiful Pleiades? Can you loose the cords of Orion? Can you bring forth the constellations in their seasons or lead out the Bear with its Cubs?" God dominates Job here, as he has done me so many times. Who am I to go against this God who has the power to shift even the universe? May I come to listen to God, but never understand him; to witness but never try to comprehend because I know it is worthless. May I simply accept and appreciate and marvel in the glory and infinite majesty that is the LORD of the heavens and earth.