I AM not normally a fan of the winter or the cold, but there is one reason I get excited about winter – the stars.
Typically, here in the Scenic Rim, the best time for viewing the stars is winter.
The sky is normally clear of clouds and the sky less hazy. And on a clear winter’s night, the view is breathtaking.
I find the stars comforting because they remind me that we are not alone.
Modern science tells that the stars, planets- everything, the entire universe had a definite beginning in the finite past.
The expansion rate of the universe, entropy and CMB radiation are just some of the ways we know this.
Science also tells us that everything that begins to exist must have a cause and that something cannot come out of nothing.
And so, something or Someone powerful caused the universe to come into existence. But not just powerful- this Entity must also be greater than the universe in every way, so it must be timeless, immaterial, conscious, spaceless … a technical description of God.
In the Bible, Psalm 8:3-4, the writer says, “When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars which you have set in place, what is man that you are mindful of him?’
The Psalmist is right.
The Being who made those stars must be unimaginably powerful and yet the Bible tells us that this same all-powerful Being knows us intimately.
Jesus even tells us He knows the exact number of hairs on our head.
We can be sure He knows us. And despite knowing all of our failings, He still chooses to draw close to us. Will we draw close to Him?
