God of the Universe

A call to action is in order.

We all know people who are living in darkness; are far from God; and are maybe even "sitting the fence" on their relationship with Him.

I'd like to encourage you this Christmas season to pray for one person you know and take a step in inviting them to your small group as well as a Christmas service.

Check this out (I stumbled across this yesterday in the book Finish The Mission and it blew my mind!):

I don't know if any of you are astronomy hobbiests (I'm not), but you MUST check out these pictures taken by the Hubble Telescope, as well as some audio from distant pulsars.

Like I said, I'm not really "in" to this, so I don't really understand it all, but what an amazing God we have! For instance, this galaxy http://hubblesite.org/gallery/album/galaxy/pr2003028a/ called the "Sombrero Galaxy" is over 29 million light years from here! That's traveling at the speed of light (184,000 miles per second) for 29 million years! And that's not even close to the "edge" of the universe.

The sounds of the pulsars are actually radio waves that radiotelescopes pick up. If you scroll down to where it says 47 Tucanae http://www.jb.man.ac.uk/~pulsar/Education/Sounds/ in this cluster, it sounds like something out of a sci fi movie and actually makes a musical chord!

ALL OF IT is evidence of how glorious God is and it is ALL for Him. When we sing, pray, worship, hum a tune, laugh, we're part of that glory. Our beating hearts, the flap of a bird's wing, the waves on the ocean, and on and on, point to the glory of God! How amazing!

 

God of the universe, Creator, loves us deeply.  Why wouldn't we want to share this fact with everyone we know?  Let that sink in a minute.

During this Christmas, we recognize that God came to us - right here on Earth - to show us how much he loves us. That we have everlasting life into the everlasting and everlasting. How vast His love is for us. It is without end! God, who created all this, sent us one way to get back home, and his name is Jesus Christ. Jesus is the only one who can bring darkness back to light. There's only one option and we can't keep it to ourselves.

Lord, the universe declares your majesty. You are Holy. Holy. Holy!