I’m standing out in the backyard staring up at the most beautiful star-filled sky. My attention is drawn to threes stars arranged in a perfect triangle. “How neat is that?” I think.
Then God gently taps me on the shoulder and points out that these three stars, viewed from any other angle, do not form the neat little equilateral that I see. These stars are actually separated by unimaginable distances, the light from one beginning its journey to my eyes millions of years before the light from the others, with those other two stars also removed from each other in space and time by million of years and billions of billions of miles.
All of this was set in motion long before my birth just so I could look up and see this perfect triangle.
And so God could talk to me about His planning and His love for me.
If God could set things in motion 13 billion years ago at the Big Bang or 6000 years ago when He set the stars in place (you take your pick; it doesn’t really matter here which one you believe) so that the light from these three stars would reach my eyes at the right time and from just the right directions, then God can certainly set up events in our every day lives for our good. In fact, I’ll go further, everything, yes, everything, in the history of the universe has been set in motion for this very moment – to bless you and make you everything that God has dreamed about you becoming since before He created the world. And it doesn’t matter whether it’s good stuff or bad – stars being born or stars dying – it’s all for you, the apple of God’s eye.
Napoleon at Waterloo? God worked that out to bless you today. Launch of the Apollo 11 mission? God had you in mind. Tsunami in Indonesia? Terrible, terrible tragedy but God will work good from it in your life if you’ll let Him.
So, if God can set stars in motion billions of years ago to bless you, and if God had you in mind during the signing of the Declaration of Independence, then God certainly has His eye on you today and desires to bring all of your both difficult and pleasant circumstances into perfect alignment.
We need only look up and see.
Then God gently taps me on the shoulder and points out that these three stars, viewed from any other angle, do not form the neat little equilateral that I see. These stars are actually separated by unimaginable distances, the light from one beginning its journey to my eyes millions of years before the light from the others, with those other two stars also removed from each other in space and time by million of years and billions of billions of miles.
All of this was set in motion long before my birth just so I could look up and see this perfect triangle.
And so God could talk to me about His planning and His love for me.
If God could set things in motion 13 billion years ago at the Big Bang or 6000 years ago when He set the stars in place (you take your pick; it doesn’t really matter here which one you believe) so that the light from these three stars would reach my eyes at the right time and from just the right directions, then God can certainly set up events in our every day lives for our good. In fact, I’ll go further, everything, yes, everything, in the history of the universe has been set in motion for this very moment – to bless you and make you everything that God has dreamed about you becoming since before He created the world. And it doesn’t matter whether it’s good stuff or bad – stars being born or stars dying – it’s all for you, the apple of God’s eye.
Napoleon at Waterloo? God worked that out to bless you today. Launch of the Apollo 11 mission? God had you in mind. Tsunami in Indonesia? Terrible, terrible tragedy but God will work good from it in your life if you’ll let Him.
So, if God can set stars in motion billions of years ago to bless you, and if God had you in mind during the signing of the Declaration of Independence, then God certainly has His eye on you today and desires to bring all of your both difficult and pleasant circumstances into perfect alignment.
We need only look up and see.
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