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in four minutes. But Arcturus travels at the rate of fif teen thousand miles in one minute ! No wonder some have called this star the runaway star. And yet our God is the Engineer that guides Arcturus in ■ its terrific course through the universe. If God can guide the mighty uni- .verse, how foolish of us to hesitate to put our lives under His control ! But let us look once more into the heavens, and Jjsj ten to their language, this time receiving a message about our Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ. Col. 1:16-17: “All things were created by him and for him. And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.” Let your mind conceive if it can all the bodies which exist in all the uni verse of God. Take a trip from one end of heaven to the other and view all the stars which are hurling through space. When you have returned from your trip, accord ing to this verse, you must admit two things. First, every thing you saw, was created by Christ." And second, all the vast universe is held together by the power of the Lord Jesus Christ. And yet this same Jesus who controls the universe also dwells in my heart! What a glorious thought ! How humble it should make me !
goes up in the sap, of the trees of this earth every twenty- four hours more water than pours- over Niagara Falls in a year.- That is almost unbelievable. But what about the power of the sun? It has been estimated that the sun exerts every day eight quintillions of horsepower upon the universe, or an eight with eighteen zeros after it! But the power of the sun is only a drop in the bucket compared with the power displayed in all the rest of the universe that is within the view of man. And yet Job tells us that these heavens above us are but the outskirts of God’s vast power! (Job 26:13-14 R. V .). “By his Spirit the heavens are garnished; His hand hath pierced the swift serpent. Lo, these are but the outskirts of his ways: and how small a whisper do we hear of him! But the thunder o f his power who can understand?” If we could but grasp to some extent at least the mighty power of God, it would make us realize our own insignificance, and would increase our faith in God. When we begin to realize the Stupendous power there is in the' universe, then this question comes to our mind, Is all this power under perfect control? The sight that greets our eyes as we look out into space is so wonderful and magnificent as to stun the imagination. As one has said: “Worlds and systems and clusters arid universes rise in sublime perspective, fading away in the unfathomable regions of space, until even thought itself fails in its efforts' to plunge across the gulf by which we are sep arated from those wonderful objects.” Are all these heavenly bodies whirling through space by chance, or is some One guiding them in their course? In Job 38:31 God asks this question: “Canst thou bind the sweet influ ences of Pleiades', or loose the bands of Orion?” In re cent years astronomers have discovered that the Pleiades and Orion are each a group of stars held as it were by a cord or a chain; The way these stars, though millions of miles apart, are held together by some unknown power, has baffled the astronomers. But the student of Scripture knows that these stars, as well as all the vast universe, are under the control of art almighty God. In Job 38:32 God asks another question: “Canst thou guide Arcturus with his sons?” How fast does Arcturus travel through space? The average star would be like an express train traveling from New York to San Francisco
The spacious firmament on high, With all the blue, ethereal sky, The spangled heavens, a shining frame, Their great Original proclaim; The unwearied sun, from day to day, Does his Creator’s power display, And publishes to every land The work of an Almighty Hand. Soon as the evening shades prevail, The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly, to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth ; While all the stars that round her burn, And all the planets in their turn, Confirm the tidings as they roll, And spread the truth from pole to pole. What though in solemn silence, all Move ’round the dark terrestrial ball ? What though no real voice or sound Amid their radiant orbs be found? In reason’s ear they all rejoice, And utter forth a glorious voice, Forever singing, as they shine, “The hand that made us is divine.”
—Joseph Addison.
“Let the heavens rejoice, and let the earth be glad; let the sea roar, and the fulness thereof.” —Psalm 96:11.
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