Sun, Earth and Hair

First, the Earth is flat. Then it is round. Flat again. Round again. In the end? Round off course.

Ever since Ptolemy proposed that the Earth was the center of the Universe (Geocentric model) , Christian and Jewish astronomers alike could not part from that view, simple because we were created by the Almighty, right? It just seemed so right, it had to be! We are the special ones! The important ones! The center of attention! We were made in the IMAGE OF GOD!!

It did take time for someone with enough brains and guts to tell all these people that they were wrong. The sun, not the Earth, is the center of a Solar System (Heliocentric model). Man, did those people get into trouble or what! Further revelations showed that the Solar System is in fact a minority in the major event, the Milky Way. But that's not the whole story, billions upon billions of galaxies, all shapes, sizes, temperatures, compositions, etc. in the known universe, thousands of light years apart. The universe sure is a big place. Life on this blue globe seems so insignificant, like a grain, upon a grain, upon a grain, upon a grain, upon a grain of sand. Microscopic in the whole play of events.

With this big light show going on out there, are we too insignificant for God? No! The Bible says that our very hairs are numbered, meaning that even the very strands of hair on your head are numbered by God, a testament to his attention to the details of your life. God created the beauty of space to show us his power, that what he can do and what we can do are worlds apart. He created the galaxies to show us how small we really are. But, he is here with everyone of you, despite how small you are. No matter how small or how complex your situation, He is here with everyone of you, individually, personally, ready to help. You may not be the center of the Universe, but you are, the center of His world. As proof, there is the Cross, the seemingly unimportant event in history, about 2000 years ago. God almighty has appeared to us, fully God, fully man (if you are confused about this, don't worry, nobody can get it, because no one can), accepted death on the cross despite multiple opportunities for him to give up. God has lived through a human life, he knows your struggles because he has experienced them personally. We have been given the opportunity of a life time, because of his death and resurrection, because death has died with him and he came back to bring us life, all we need to do is ask, nothing fancy, not rituals, just ask. "Dear Jesus, I want to accept you as my personal Lord and Savior, from this day on my life is yours, may your Holy Spirit live in me." Its done! Welcome to your new life in Christ.

you only live once,
Artking