the blue marble

So, yesterday in my morning Bible time i read Psalm 19.

1 The heavens declare the glory of God; 

the skies proclaim the work of his hands.

2 Day after day they pour forth speech; 

night after night they display knowledge.

3 There is no speech or language where their voice is not heard.

4 Their voice goes out into all the earth,

their words to the ends of the world.

In the heavens he has pitched a tent for the sun,

5 which is like a bridegroom coming forth from his pavillion,

like a champion rejoicing to run his course.

6 It rises at one end of the heavens and makes its circuit to the other,

nothing is hidden from its heat.

it got me thinking about being surrounded on a canoe trip by the trees, the sky, the water, rocks..the things that i look at and remember the Creator of it all.  

And God said, 

"Let there be light (day)...

Let there be an expanse between the waters to separate water from water (sky)...

Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place (seas) and let dry ground appear (land)...

Let the land produce vegetation (trees & plants)...

Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to separate day from night (sun & moon)...

Let the waters teem with living creatures and let birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the sky...

Let the land produce living creatures according to it's kinds: livestock, creatures that move along the ground, and wild animals...

Let us make man in our image..."

taken from Genesis 1

Last night Psalm 19 was mentioned at our Bible study.

and we also discussed about the universe, how expanse it is.  

the smallest caterpillar, how intricate it is.

The Lord God made them both.

we do not even know how vast the universe is, but what we do know about it is unfathomable.

God made it.

this is the God i pray to.

do i truly think about who He is when i sit to pray?

"let there be"

he spoke the world..the known universe..and the still unknown.. into existence.

this morning i woke and sat to do my Bible time.  

when i started to pray i paused to think about the God i was going to be speaking with.

to get my focus right.

i was speechless.

space is vast.

but what astounded me even more is that i began to think about Earth.

now.

stop for a moment and truly think about the size of your world.

the daily world you live in.

now begin to put it into proportion to the rest of the country you live in.

now include the rest of the world.

yeah.

crazy, massive.

truly pause and think about how BIG this blue and green marble is that we are living on.

*don't even think about the fact that it's floating in space - and is not even the biggest planet out there*

did you pause?

did you close your eyes and try to fit yourself into the picture of the Earth.

not the earth that fits into an atlas.

the earth we actually live on.

the earth that the astronauts watch shrink as they fly away from it.

now think about the God that made that.

He is AMAZING!!

AWE-INSPIRING!!

INDESCRIBABLE!!

that is the God i have the blessing and honor of approaching with my prayers, praises, pleas.

wow.

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