I think I about have my sermon ready for Sunday. In it I am going to talk a little bit about the universe. I am fascinated by astronomy. Here are some of the things I am going to mention on Sunday:
We live in a galaxy called the Milky Way. More specifically we live within our own solar system, which revolves around the sun, which is a local star.
The sun is 93 million miles away.
If you can imagine that our galaxy is the size of North American, then our solar would be the size of a coffee cup.
The sun is just one star in our galaxy. There are 200-400 billion stars in our galaxy.
Our nearest star is Proxima Centauri. The Voyager spacecraft is traveling toward it at 35,000 miles per hour. It would take the Voyager nearly 40,000 years to get there.
Our Milky Way galaxy is so huge. If you could travel at the speed of light, which 186,000 miles a second (or 700 million miles in an hour), it would take you 100,000 years to get across our galaxy.
Then you have to remember that our huge galaxy is just one of billions of other galaxies that can be seen with the aid of giant telescopes.
The guy who rode into Jerusalem on a donkey, a guy so misunderstood, made all that! We still have trouble misunderstanding him.
Misunderstanding leads to unmet expectations, and unmet expectations lead to deep disappointment. The best way to misunderstand God is trying contain and tame him. Let the King be king of the universe!
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