The Universe, God and You

The Universe, God & you

“The grandeur of the Universe is always commensurate with the grandeur of the soul that surveys it.”
          Henrich Heine
The Bible says,
“In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.” 
                                                                              Genesis 1:1.
Job without the benefit of modern science said,
“He spreads out the northern  skies  over empty space; he suspends the earth over nothing.” 
   Job 26:7
The Psalmist wrote,
“The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands.” 
                                                                                                  Psalm 19:1.
For me there is a God who created the universe and everything in it. He made it orderly and that order proves there is a God.
Mathematicians, physicist, astronomers, and scientist of all types realize there is an order. Mathematics proves the order. Using math science has been able to discover everything from planets orbiting distant stars, to the smallest subatomic particle.
I cannot believe this order simply happened randomly.
Additionally when we look at moral values of people around the world. The basic moral values of do not kill do not steal and so forth are common values. These values have existed for millennia in all societies world wide. This to, to me proves there is a God who placed in the hearts and minds of all men these moral values.
What to me however is more amazing is the God that created the universe actually came and entered His creation in the form of Jesus Christ.
The gospel of John recording,
“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning. Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. In him was life, and that life was the light of men....
The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the One and Only, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.” 
                                                                                         John 1:1-4, 12-14.
This I know is a remarkable statement. A belief held only by Christians. The God of creation, almighty, all powerful God, chose to enter the universe, the world that he created.
Its quite a statement but if not true it destroys the Christian faith because Christians believe that God took a small part of his infiniteness made it corporeal and entered the world. Not only that He did it to reconcile man to Himself.
In other words God reached down to the man. He reached down I believe to give each and every person a choice.
When God created man He had already gave man a freewill and for that will to be truly free it had to include the ability to believe there is a God or not to believe.
Choosing not to believe in God and falling short of what God would have for your life is what is referred to as sinning. And since we are as human beings far from prefect we all sin.
The apostle Paul wrote,
“for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,”
                                                                                Romans 3:23,
That’s why Jesus came. He came to show each and every person how far He would go to reconcile man to himself.
If Jesus had not come we would have had to follow closely the laws laid down in the Old Testament. However Jesus came to be the Saviour of mankind.
Not only that but if Jesus had not entered this world we on the day we stand before God to be judged could I believe honestly say to God, “you don’t understand what it is to be human, because all you have ever known is absolute power.”
However since Jesus came to the world and lived life as an ordinary man. We cannot do that.
 Jesus understands fully what it is to be a man. He experienced the mundane things like the sun and rain against his skin, he attended at least one wedding that we know of. He experienced the love of family and friends, temptation, the fleeting glory of fame as a great teacher. At the same time he experienced the wrath of his enemies who tried him in what amounted to a kangaroo court and passed him on to the secular Roman authorities.
    Authorities who found no wrong in what he was doing, yet for political expediency had him brutally flogged and put to death on a cross.
This is the Jesus we all will one day stand before and be judged, because death did not hold Him. Jesus rose from the dead walked briefly on this earth again then ascended to be with God the Father. Where he will all one day stand before him as either Judge or Saviour.
Until that day we all have a choice to make. The gospel of John records the choice Jesus himself gave us when he said,
“For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.  
For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.  Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son”. 
                                                                                                       John 3:16-18.
The choice dear reader is yours. C. S. Lewis said,
“Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.”
                                                      C. S. Lewis
Please think about it.