World-Builder

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

Genesis 1:1, NKJV

 

It's amazing to me that with all of the science and technology that we have developed, all the advancements in knowledge and ability that we have made, we still don't have anything close to a complete understanding of the universe we live in.  With the largest telescope that has ever been made, astronomers can still only estimate the size of what they can see.

 

It is estimated that there are One Hundred Billion Galaxies visible through the Hubble Telescope, and it is further estimated that telescope advancements could bring into our visibility another One Hundred Billion Galaxies beyond that, with who knows how many galaxies that we cannot see awaiting our discovery.

 

It is also estimated that there are, within each galaxy, One Hundred Billion stars.  And in our galaxy, The Milky Way, scientists hypothesize that there are Seventeen Billion Earth-sized planets.  Not one has ever been found, but conventional wisdom and statistical probability insist that they must be there.

 

Not all galaxies are the same, though they have been placed into three categories:  Spiral, Elliptical, and Irregular, with several sub-classifications within those categories.  And not all stars are the same; they come in different sizes.  There are Hyper Giants and Super Giants, Bright Giants, simple Giants, and sub-Giants,  Dwarf stars, and sub-Dwarfs, and they come in an assortment of colors--red, white, blue, brown, yellow, and orange.

 

Scientists think that our sun is about Four Billion years old, with about Seven Billion years of light left in it.  Some eon, it will balloon into a red dwarf, then collapse into a white dwarf before it pops out.  Or so they say.

 

There are eight (or nine or ten) planets revolving around our little yellow sun.  Four of them--Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars--are terrestrials, made up of metal and rock; perhaps the asteroid belt beyond Mars was a fifth before it cracked up.  Jupiter and Saturn are gas giants.  Uranus and Neptune are ice giants.  Beyond that are Pluto and something they're calling Eris, and lots of other bodies classified as dwarf planets.  Added to that are the comets, asteroids, ice, and space dust.

 

Our planet, planet Earth, is perfectly placed within its solar orbit.  Any closer, we'd fry.  Further away, we'd freeze.  And our Sun is perfectly placed within the galaxy, a rather backwater system in a quiet corner away from the more volatile regions of space.  In other words, Earth is the perfect house for humanity, a house built by God.

 

For that house God created light and water and air, sea and land and sky, grass and flowers and bushes and trees, birds, fish, and animals.  Last of all He made man, the first man, created in His own image and after His likeness.  He planted a garden home for that man to live in, gave him every fruit and vegetable imaginable for food to eat, surrounded him with the animals, made from his flesh a companion, and put him in charge of taking care of the place.

 

I am one of seven billion human descendants of that First Man, living on one planet among nine in our solar system, revolving around one star among 100 Billion in our galaxy, dancing in the cosmic spin of 100 Billion other galaxies with as many stars as ours, and that's just what we estimate that we can see.  Who knows how much more there is out there?  And all of it built by the great Creator, maker of heaven and earth.

 

If God did all that, with Divine design and execution, why do we sometimes fail to believe that God can do something for us?  I promise you, friend--God is able, if we will believe.

 

For every house is built by someone,

but He who built all things is God.

Hebrews 3:4, NKJV