Wednesday, July 21, 2010

What the Heavens Declare

How many times have you sat outside and looked up at the stars or poked your head out the window of the car to stare up at the moon? You admire a sunset or (for those early birds) a sunrise. You can't very well look up at the sky and not believe that this all could not have happened by chance. It's all so perfect and beautifully put together; there must be and intelligent design behind its face. But it gets really crazy when you go farther out than your eyes can see. When you go to other galaxies and see the different make up of each, and that God has named every one of them and knows their place in the universe, you get this picture of how big God's knowledge is. When you see how big those things are and see how small earth is in accordance with the rest of the universe, you wonder what the psalmist wondered: "What is man that you are mindful of him, and the son of man that you care for him?"

I don't know about you, but I was astonished when I saw this on Louie Giglio's "Indescribable." This is the Whirlpool Galaxy.
Pretty beautiful, huh? In reality, all those pinkish clusters are scary star incubators that are producing stars every second. The Hubble telescope decided to aim their telescope in the middle of this galaxy. This is what they saw:
I don't know about you, but that looks pretty close to a cross to me. Can you believe it? The heavens are there and they are declaring everyday that God is here, God is real, God is powerful, and He's loving. His promises are everywhere. Those stars up there aren't doing anything incredibly important except giving God all the glory. He knows all of the millions and billions of stars and galaxies by name and He knows yours too and cares about you right now. We have such a big God and He still wants to have a personal relationship with us. That's an amazing God right there.
Look up Louie Giglio's "Indescribable" if you ever get the chance. It's on youtube.com. It's not that long, but you will be blown away by what you will see and hear.

11 comments:

Nathaniel M said...

That cross-looking galaxy is pretty amazing. Heh, who knew that the heavens would so literally declare the Glory of God?

Great post. :)

Lydia said...

lol. Well, that is not a galaxy. The Hubble telescope was aimed directly into the middle of the Whirlpool Galaxy and this was the image that we got back. Not a galaxy, just what the middle of one looks like. There's another galaxy that looks like blazing fire. Someone aimed a radio wave telescope at it and got back this amazing sound that sounds like a ship's mast falling over. Sort of like Morse code or something. Really amazing!!

Nathaniel M said...

Still, it's pretty dang awesome.

Wow... some space systems are odd and interesting... God is definitely quite creative. :)

Lydia said...

And there are new ones being spit out into space every single second.

Nathaniel M said...

Sorry, but new whats?

Lydia said...

stars :)

Nathaniel M said...

You mean that new stars are being created? What I've heard is that (I'm not arguing, just saying what I believe) some stars are hidden by other celestial forms and then appear, but there's fairly firm evidence that stars cannot be created, and that Darwinist people push the idea that stars form, because otherwise the universe could not be as old as they say - there would be no more stars. (their billions of years old universe versus the 6 thousand year old one of the Bible)

Of course, I've known to be wrong now and again :)

Lydia said...

Well what I've heard about the Whirlpool Galaxy is that those pink clusters are star-creating incubator.

Nathaniel M said...

Ah. I've heard the same, but I've also heard AIG (Answers in Genesis) people talking about how the energy required to do that would be so inordinate, there just isn't the energy floating around to produce a star. I dunno. Maybe :)

Lydia said...

That's why God created stars :)

Nathaniel M said...

Yeah, He created stars so that the universe doesn't have to. lol