Star Trek...
I was doing some early morning chores yesterday and I glimpsed up at the stars and noted the twinkle of those distant orbs God spoke to Abraham and later Moses about as a promise. I wondered if on some planet circling another star our faint speck of existence was included in a similar promise by God.
There are stars and then there are stars some so large they would encompass our entire solar system. God used both sand and the stars as a metaphor of promise for Abraham. I think the earthiness of the sand as a foretelling of a New Jerusalem coming down someday, how I haven't the foggiest. Some of course say it'll be the arrival of a bowling trophy for the most Christian of the Christian who've summoned God by their earnestness. Obviously I have some disdain for that ideal; Jesus said He didn't know when He would return only the Father knew.
As with all things God we catch a glimpse here and there but certitude isn't in the equation. I heard much of eschatology as a Charismatic growing up, in retrospect much of it hasn't panned out. The oligarchy mode of Christianizing the planet and thereby holding the place hostage while God is dragged into the scene kicking and screaming doesn't seem to hold water. Something in scripture about the days of Noah comes to mind. Noah a crazy man built an ark out of wood and held it together with tar, no rudder, sail, engine, or even a watertight hatch-God sealed them inside.
The carnivores ate grass with the herbivores and Noah and his family had to do without Starbucks for a while. I don't think the ingenuity of men will have much to do with summoning God almighty to do their bidding. Stars, the opposite end of the spectrum from lowly grains of sand one small, one enormous, the comparison one of import in my mind in that sand can be held in palm of a human hand, a star in the hand of God.
John
I was doing some early morning chores yesterday and I glimpsed up at the stars and noted the twinkle of those distant orbs God spoke to Abraham and later Moses about as a promise. I wondered if on some planet circling another star our faint speck of existence was included in a similar promise by God.
There are stars and then there are stars some so large they would encompass our entire solar system. God used both sand and the stars as a metaphor of promise for Abraham. I think the earthiness of the sand as a foretelling of a New Jerusalem coming down someday, how I haven't the foggiest. Some of course say it'll be the arrival of a bowling trophy for the most Christian of the Christian who've summoned God by their earnestness. Obviously I have some disdain for that ideal; Jesus said He didn't know when He would return only the Father knew.
As with all things God we catch a glimpse here and there but certitude isn't in the equation. I heard much of eschatology as a Charismatic growing up, in retrospect much of it hasn't panned out. The oligarchy mode of Christianizing the planet and thereby holding the place hostage while God is dragged into the scene kicking and screaming doesn't seem to hold water. Something in scripture about the days of Noah comes to mind. Noah a crazy man built an ark out of wood and held it together with tar, no rudder, sail, engine, or even a watertight hatch-God sealed them inside.
The carnivores ate grass with the herbivores and Noah and his family had to do without Starbucks for a while. I don't think the ingenuity of men will have much to do with summoning God almighty to do their bidding. Stars, the opposite end of the spectrum from lowly grains of sand one small, one enormous, the comparison one of import in my mind in that sand can be held in palm of a human hand, a star in the hand of God.
John
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