There’s an unfathomable reality about God. Encompassing the grandeur and immensity of the universe, God simultaneously dwells within the microscopic realm – that world of tiniest detail at a scale beyond our imagination, invisible to natural eyesight.
He created it all…from a ‘macro’ perspective down to things of ‘micro’ proportions- with everything in between.
Consider our sun – so huge that if it were hollow it could contain more than 1 million worlds the size of our earth – yet there are stars in space so large that they would easily hold half a billion suns the size of ours..!!
Milky Way. Photo: Felix Mittermeier. pexels.com
Murray Smith
Here on earth we’re in a galaxy called the Milky Way. Our sun is the centre of a solar system in the Milky Way. But the sun itself, is just a tiny speck of cosmic dust compared with the size of the Milky Way itself. Apart from the Milky Way galaxy, there’s at least 100 million other galaxies in known space; each of those 100 million galaxies in turn has about 100 billion stars on average in them…at least that’s as far as scientists can figure out anyway.
Einstein considered that we’ve most likely probed only one billionth of theoretical space…llit is vast beyond comprehension. Remarkably, God transcends both the vastness of the universe while absorbing Himself with the realm of the microscopic – where He has created a world of detail and beauty.
Job, who lived over 3000 years ago, has a book in the Bible carrying his name. Facing many extremely distressing and painful hardships in life, he accused God of being unfair. God put Job in his place asking, “Where were you when I stretched out the span of the heavens..? Have you entered into the treasures of the snow..?” Interesting questions considering powerful telescopes or electro-microscopes didn’t exist to reveal either the grandeur of the planets, or the geometric wonder of snowflakes – billions fall from the sky, yet two are never the same!
Our oceans teem with plankton – microscopic life forming the staple diet of many sea creatures…there’s tens of thousands of these forms of life, each a marvel of beautiful and intricate design. so tiny it would take 15 million to fill a teaspoon…
Then there’s the inner cellular structure of plant life with chloroplasts, tiny green grains that contain chlorophyll moving about endlessly in the cell walls of leaves, combining carbon dioxide and water into carbohydrates…the wonder of photosynthesis that locks the energy of the sunshine into food.
The human body defies understanding in terms of order and design…brain cells transmit signals and responses around our body enabling us to think and reason yet causing us to perform life-giving functions that we don’t even think about doing for ourselves…the wonder of our cardio vascular system and our blood cells – 30 million red corpuscles in every single drop of blood – complex processes being managed though cellular structures that keep us healthy – it’s truly astounding!
Science advances, revealing creative wonders that multitudes continue to FAILin attributing to God. For me, attributing such stunning order and design to spontaneous random chance events, calls for considerably more faith, than putting faith and belief in God!
