Today’s Podcast
- Thanks for joining me today for “A Little Walk with God.” I’m your host Richard Agee.
- In the 1950s and 60s, just about every boy I knew thought of being an astronaut at one time or anothers. We were in a space race with the Soviet Union and rushed to land a man on the moon. Everyone around me dreamed of being that person.
- Scripture
- John 8:12
- Jesus: I am the light that shines through the cosmos; if you walk with Me, you will thrive in the nourishing light that gives life and will not know darkness.
- Devotional
- As one of my electives as an undergraduate I took astronomy. I got interested in astronomy in Junior High during the height of the space race and our race to the moon. Space and the complexity of the universe fascinated me. I think a great many young men of that time dreamed of screaming away on the back of a Saturn rocket and visiting the stars.
- Astronomy class tried to take away some of the wonder
- Explained universe and just happenstance of gravity wells pulling on matter and causing the reactions in the stars and formation of planets
- Left God out of the equation
- Never explained how the Big Bang might have occurred in the first place or who created the dense material from which the Big Bang sprang
- Still awed by the universe
- Distances are mind-boggling
- 32 billion light years to the farthest known galaxy (eight minutes and twenty seconds for light to reach us from the sun, 5.3 hours to reach Pluto)
- Billions of galaxies in the known universe
- Each galaxy made of millions or billions of stars
- Many of those stars have planets
- We are only beginning to discover the real scope of the universe over the last 200 years
- Think about Jesus 2,000 years ago describing Himself as the light of the cosmos
- Pierces through the darkness
- Created all the universe in all its vastness
- Brings life and sustains it
- Set in motion all the rules that lets us exist on this tiny world
- That Man, the God/Man, invites us to walk with Him
- We will thrive in the nourishing light that gives life
- We will not know darkness the thing that brings fear to men
- All we have to do is believe in Him for forgiveness and walk in His ways
- He will be beside us all the way
- As one of my electives as an undergraduate I took astronomy. I got interested in astronomy in Junior High during the height of the space race and our race to the moon. Space and the complexity of the universe fascinated me. I think a great many young men of that time dreamed of screaming away on the back of a Saturn rocket and visiting the stars.
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