Wednesday, August 02, 2006
i was reading The Fear of the Lord by John Bevere and this part particularly struck me. showing the awesomeness and wonder majesty of our Lord.
the sun is 93,000,000 miles from the earth. if you boarded a jumbo jet today and traveled to the sun, your journey would take over 21 years. think where you would be 21 years ago for now, or in another comparison, those who dive, it would not be even done in a lifetime. it would take about 200 years, not including any gas or rest stops.
the sun is a star, and it is the nearest star to us on earth. how about those small little twinkling stars that we see at night too? the nearest star besides the sun is 4.3 million light years away.
taking proportions, lets say the earth was reduced to the size of a peppercorn, and the sun would become the size of an eight inch diameter ball. according to the scale of this size, the distance from the earth to the sun would be 26 yards, which is only a quarter the length of a football field, yet remember, for a scale airplane to span that 26 yead distance, it takes more than 21 years.
well, the nearest star would now then be placed 4000 miles away from the peppercorn! that means if you put the peppercorn earth in san diego, carlifornia, the nearest star on our scale model would be positioned past new york city and into the atlantic ocean a thousane miles out to sea!
to reach this closest star by aeroplane would take approximately 51 billion years NON-STOP
expanding more, the stars we see at night with the naked eye can be up to 4000 light years away. if light travels at a rate of 186,282 miles a second, it still takes 4000 years to reach the earth. which means, the light of these stars was first released even before moses parted the red sea, and has traveled a distance of 670 million miles every hour without slowing down and is just now reaching the earth.
isnt it how wonderful our God controls all of these, and He is the creator of it all?
how great is our God; sing with me
how great is our God;all will see
how great, how great is our God
name above all names, worthy of all praise
my heart will sing, how great is our God!
thank you Lord Jesus for all You've done for us, that we were still sinners but you still loved us.
till then; 8:35 PM