{"id":108887,"date":"2021-01-12T04:24:36","date_gmt":"2021-01-12T10:24:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/?p=108887"},"modified":"2021-01-09T08:02:58","modified_gmt":"2021-01-09T14:02:58","slug":"18-p","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/2021\/01\/12\/18-p\/","title":{"rendered":"18.p. “Great are the works of the LORD, studied by all who delight in them.”"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Psalm 8:3<\/b>\u00a0<\/a><\/span>\u00a0When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place,\u00a0what is man that you are mindful of him, and the son of man that you care for him?<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>Psalms 144:3<\/b><\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0O LORD, what is man that you regard him, or the son of man that you think of him?<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>Psalms 111:2<\/b><\/span><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0Great are the works of the LORD, studied by all who delight in them.<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>Romans 1:20<\/b><\/span><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse.<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>Isaiah 40:17<\/b><\/span><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0All the nations are as nothing before him, they are accounted by him as less than nothing and emptiness.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Let\u2019s review a little high school science, shall we? First, a light-year. A light-year is a measurement of distance. Light travels at 186,000 miles\u00a0per second<\/i>, so a light-year is the distance light travels in one year. If you do the math, that comes out to about 5.9\u00a0trillion<\/i>\u00a0miles.<\/p>\n

So\u2014a light-year is a distance of about 5.9 trillion miles. Obviously, we have no earthly references for such a distance. For example, the distance around planet Earth is only 24,900 miles; the moon is 238,900 miles from the earth; the sun is 93 million miles from earth. None of those numbers come close to the distance of one light-year\u2014about 5.9 trillion miles.<\/p>\n

So one light-year is a distance that none of us can really identify with. But that makes the following facts even harder to comprehend.<\/p>\n

The galaxy in which planet Earth is found\u2014the Milky Way galaxy\u2014is huge. It contains between 100-400 billion stars, and possibly that many planets. Its diameter is between 170,000-200,000 light-years. Now we\u2019re getting somewhere. One light-year is 5.9 trillion miles, and the Milky Way galaxy may be 200,000 light-years in diameter.<\/p>\n

But hold on\u2014we\u2019re not talking about the big numbers yet. Our Milky Way galaxy is part of what is known as the Laniakea Supercluster, a collection of 100,000 galaxies like the Milky Way which stretches out over 520 million light-years. In miles, that is 520,000,000 multiplied by 5,900,000,000,000\u2014a number I can\u2019t compute because I don\u2019t have a calculator that has room for that many zeros! To travel from one side of the Laniakea Supercluster to the other would take 520 million years traveling at the speed of light (186,000 miles\u00a0per second<\/i>).<\/p>\n

Finally, if you have any breath left, consider this: It is estimated that there are some 10 million superclusters like the Laniakea Supercluster in the known universe.<\/p>\n

Is it any wonder that the psalmist, David, wrote, \u201cWhen I consider Your heavens . . . what is man that You are mindful of him…?\u201d (Psalm 8:3-4) Think about yourself, an individual person. Now think about the immensity of the universe I have just described. God is bigger than the universe He created, yet He knows the number of hairs on your head (Luke 12:7)! How is it that God is immense and personal at the same time? All we know is that He is. (David Jeremiah)<\/p>\n

God can do more than we ask and much more than we can imagine.\u00a0 <\/span>Why is it that we don\u2019t surrender and lay at His feet all of those hurts, fears, anxious thoughts, and pain?\u00a0 <\/span>Certainly, He can do more than we ask or can imagine. He loves us!\u00a0 He sent His son to redeem us! He has prepared a place for us!\u00a0 Don’t let the worries and cares and troubles of this world hinder you from seeing and the awesomeness of God.\u00a0 It is in these glimpses of His majesty that we find new reasons and purpose for hope and faith in Him.<\/p>\n

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Psalm 8:3\u00a0\u00a0When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place,\u00a0what is man that you are mindful of him, and the son of man that you care for him? \u00a0Psalms 144:3\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0O LORD, what is man that you regard him, or the son of … Continue reading “18.p. “Great are the works of the LORD, studied by all who delight in them.””<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4786,8000,2254,4136,14762,6172,1865,1867,14761,1858,1866,4191,1860,805,1900,12114,14759,3461,14760,1869,322],"class_list":["post-108887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-prayers","tag-by-the-word-of-the-lord-heavens-were-made","tag-care-for-him","tag-clearly-perceived","tag-creation","tag-delight-studied","tag-divine-nature","tag-emptiness","tag-eternal-power","tag-great-are-the-works-of-the-lord","tag-heavens","tag-invisible-attributes","tag-made","tag-mindful-of-him","tag-moon","tag-nations","tag-regard-him","tag-set-in-place","tag-stars","tag-think-of-him","tag-without-excuse","tag-world"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108887"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109074,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108887\/revisions\/109074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}