Tuesday, September 04, 2007
When I look at the Stars...
The other morning I was out on my walk. I love walking in the early morning this time of year. It's still dark and I get to walk into the sunrise. I always pray when I walk and lately I've taken to running a bit to try and get a little stronger. I had finished about a mile run and was trying to catch my breath. As I threw my head back I looked into the sky and it was crisp and clear and I feel like I saw about a million stars. I began to have thoughts about the stars and at first I wrote it off as my mind wandering and tried to get back to prayer, but in my spirit, I felt God saying "just look at the stars." What He showed me blessed me and I pray it will bless you too.
He reminded me how stars guided people for centuries. From the magi finding Jesus to people lost at night on the open sea, people could find where they were by following the stars. Over time people began to chart the movement of the stars. This was both good and bad. To the negative, it led people to believe that certain things happened because of the alignment of stars and planets and began to create astrology, which took man's focus off God and placed it on the movements of inanimate objects.
The other problem created was that people began to see the "movement" of the stars and assumed that the earth stood still and everything else revolved around it. This is where it parallels with my life. When you see things moving in the night sky, you make the assumption that the earth is not moving. This as we know is not the case. In fact, while the stars are moving, the universe is so vast that we are not seeing their movement, so much as we are seeing our own. The earth rotates at a speed of 465 miles per second. If it moved any slower, we would all just float off into space. So while we feel we are not moving, we are actually moving at an insane speed. It's the same way with our lives. We look at all the things that are happening around us, and get frustrated feeling as if we are going nowhere, but in reality, lilke the earth moving beneath us, God is at work in the spiritual realm, keeping things in motion and preparing us and preparing the way for us to live out the mission He created for us. Just because it feels like nothing's happening, doesn't mean that's true. He showed me a lot of other things too. If you'd like to hear them check out the Running A.M.O.K. Podcast at http://www.radicallyreal.com
The other morning I was out on my walk. I love walking in the early morning this time of year. It's still dark and I get to walk into the sunrise. I always pray when I walk and lately I've taken to running a bit to try and get a little stronger. I had finished about a mile run and was trying to catch my breath. As I threw my head back I looked into the sky and it was crisp and clear and I feel like I saw about a million stars. I began to have thoughts about the stars and at first I wrote it off as my mind wandering and tried to get back to prayer, but in my spirit, I felt God saying "just look at the stars." What He showed me blessed me and I pray it will bless you too.
He reminded me how stars guided people for centuries. From the magi finding Jesus to people lost at night on the open sea, people could find where they were by following the stars. Over time people began to chart the movement of the stars. This was both good and bad. To the negative, it led people to believe that certain things happened because of the alignment of stars and planets and began to create astrology, which took man's focus off God and placed it on the movements of inanimate objects.
The other problem created was that people began to see the "movement" of the stars and assumed that the earth stood still and everything else revolved around it. This is where it parallels with my life. When you see things moving in the night sky, you make the assumption that the earth is not moving. This as we know is not the case. In fact, while the stars are moving, the universe is so vast that we are not seeing their movement, so much as we are seeing our own. The earth rotates at a speed of 465 miles per second. If it moved any slower, we would all just float off into space. So while we feel we are not moving, we are actually moving at an insane speed. It's the same way with our lives. We look at all the things that are happening around us, and get frustrated feeling as if we are going nowhere, but in reality, lilke the earth moving beneath us, God is at work in the spiritual realm, keeping things in motion and preparing us and preparing the way for us to live out the mission He created for us. Just because it feels like nothing's happening, doesn't mean that's true. He showed me a lot of other things too. If you'd like to hear them check out the Running A.M.O.K. Podcast at http://www.radicallyreal.com
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