Look Deep

Look Deep
Albert Einstein one of the greatest scientist ever to live made an interesting statement. He said,

“Look deep into nature, 

and then you will understand everything better.”

                                                                 Albert Einstein

The psalmist writing several millenniums  before Einstein’s birth wrote,

“The heavens declare the glory of God; 

the skies proclaim the work of his hands. 

Day after day they pour forth speech; 

night after night they display knowledge. 

There is no speech or language where their voice is not heard.” 

                                                                              Psalm 19:1-3.

I have always been of the opinion that science done correctly will show there is a creator behind it all. And science seems to be heading in that direction.
Scientist are looking into nature. They are seeing that everything from the largest galaxies to the smallest subatomic particles have all come together to allow life as we know it here on earth to exist.
To me that speaks of a creator.
Einstein noted,

“Human beings vegetables  or cosmic dust. 

We all dance to a mysterious tune, 

intoned in the distance by an invisible player.”

                                                              Albert Einstein.

I don’t know whether or not Einstein believed in God. I do know that his statement about we all being cosmic dust, dancing to a tune played an invisible player is true.
The Bible tells me,

“In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.”

                                                                                            Genesis 1:1.

In other words God created the very cosmic dust that makes up the Earth the Universe and Everything in it.
God is that “invisible player” Einstein spoke of.
Mankind is God’s creation. That being said God in making mankind did not make robots. He made individuals with a freewill to do as they wish.
That includes the right to believe in God or not to believe in Him. I and billions of people like me believe God exists.
I believe in God not out of blind faith. I believe in God because of what I see around me. I have looked at what the Bible says and what science says and find no contradiction. Both point to a creator.
The choice however is up to you. Each individual must decide what they believe and ultimately live with the consequence of their decision.
Please think about it. 

Consider

Consider

Carl Sagan wrote of the above picture,
“Consider that dot. That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, every human being who ever was lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religious, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there- on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam....
To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we’ve ever known.”
From Carl Sagan,(1934-1996) Pale Blue Dot A Vision of the Human Future in Space.
Mr. Sagan couldn’t be more right.
We are, if you think about it from a purely  human prospective, are space dust and this world is all we have.
I believe however we are more than that.
 Albert Einstein wrote,
“Human beings vegetables or cosmic dust. We all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible player.”
                                                    Albert Einstein.
I believe the mysterious tune is life, the invisible player I believe is God.
I believe John when he wrote,
“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 1:1-4,14.
I believe the words of Jesus who 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.
John 3:16,17
I believe that God took a small part of His infiniteness and entered into our world. I believe he did this so that no man can stand before Him and say you don’t understand.
When we stand before God, before Jesus. We cannot say to Him “You were never human, you don’t understand” because he does.
Jesus lived on this earth. Thus He understands everything that is human. Everything from the mundane things such as the sun and rain against one’s face, to the joy of friends. The love of devoted parents. Everything that we as people go through.
He also understands what it is to be mistreated, lied about, beaten and put to death in a most hideous way for a crime he didn’t commit. 
And he experienced it all so that we may have eternal life with him. All we must do is acknowledge him.
Our life in this world, is but a mist in the aeons of time.  We are however eternal beings meant to live on through eternity.
While we may vanish from this life we live on through eternity. It is I believe however in this life where we decide where we will spend eternity.
Jesus said,
“Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.” 
     John 14:6.
He also said
“Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.  
Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.  
For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.” 
                                                 Matthew 11:28-30
Jesus offers life everlasting with God to all who believe in Him. The choice ultimately is yours. It is an act of faith.
The writer of Hebrews saying,
“And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him.”
                                                                              Hebrews 11:6.
C. S. Lewis put things this way,
“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.
Ultimately you the reader must make a decision about God, Jesus and where you will spend eternity.
The Bible and particularly the New Testament offers the true seeker, looking for meaning in life answers and rest for one’s soul.
Please take time to read and study the life and words of Jesus and his apostles with an open mind.
Please think about it.

Look Einstein

Look

          “Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.”
                                                                                                    Albert Einstein.
I believe Einstein was right. The more we study nature the better our understanding of everything and that includes God.
The Psalmist wrote,
“The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands. 
Day after day they pour forth speech; night after night they display knowledge. 
There is no speech or language where their voice is not heard.” 
                                                                                     Psalm 19:1-3
I listened to a well known scientist on the radio not so long ago. He was convinced that the universe was started with a big bang. I don’t doubt that he is right. Especially when it comes to science theologians have had a poor record. The church believed that the earth was the centre of the universe and the sun and the planets revolved around it. They were wrong then and they could be wrong now.
Obviously someone’s time frame for the creation of the universe is off.
It wasn’t what this scientist said about creation that bothered me however. It was when the host asked him if he believed in life after death he said unequivocally no. That “when it comes to life it appears that this is all there is. That death is just an end.”
I noted that he said “it appears” that this is all there is. He seemed to be leaving the door open.
I respect the man. He’s a good scientist and the fact he used the phrase “appears this is all there is” leaves in my mind the possibility that there is life after death. It’s just that there is no scientific way of proving it at this time.
For me I am a creationist. I however don’t really care if God used the big bang theory to create the universe. I don’t really care whether it took six billion years or six days to get us to where we are today.
What is important to me is that there is a God who loves us. That life is not finite. Limited to our corporeal being.    
For me this life is a proving ground if you will. It is here that God gives us a chance to follow Him or reject Him.
He has written on our hearts what is right and wrong. He has planted in all people I believe a need to make sense out of life.
The writer of Ecclesiastes wrote,
“What does the worker gain from his toil?  
I have seen the burden God has laid on men.  
He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the hearts of men; yet they cannot fathom what God has done from beginning to end.  
I know that there is nothing better for men than to be happy and do good while they live.  
That everyone may eat and drink, and find satisfaction in all his toil—this is the gift of God.  
I know that everything God does will endure forever; nothing can be added to it and nothing taken from it. God does it so that men will revere him. 
Whatever is has already been, and what will be has been before; and God will call the past to account. 
And I saw something else under the sun: In the place of judgment—wickedness was there, in the place of justice—wickedness was there. 
I thought in my heart, “God will bring to judgment both the righteous and the wicked, for there will be a time for every activity, a time for every deed....” 
Ecclesiastes 3:9-17
“Now all has been heard; here is the conclusion of the matter: Fear God and keep his commandments, for this is the whole  duty  of man. 
For God will bring every deed into judgment, including every hidden thing, whether it is good or evil.” 
    Ecclesiastes 12:13,14.
I cannot force my ideas on anyone. I firmly believe that each person has to read the Bible for themselves and make their own conclusions.
C. S. Lewis wrote,
“I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.”
                                                    C. S. Lewis.
Lewis also wrote,
“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.
Ultimately each individual needs to make their own decision with respect to God, and Christ.
We all need to think about it.

The Invisible Player

Invisible Player

“Human beings vegetables  or cosmic dust. We all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible player.”
                                       Albert Einstein
Einstein was right. We all dance to a mysterious tune intoned by an invisible player. That player however is closer than we realize.
The apostle Paul speaking in Athens said,
“The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth and does not live in temples built by hands.  
And he is not served by human hands, as if he needed anything, because he himself gives all men life and breath and everything else.  
From one man he made every nation of men, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he determined the times set for them and the exact places where they should live.  
God did this so that men would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from each one of us.  
‘For in him we live and move and have our being.’ As some of your own poets have said, ‘We are his offspring.’ 
          Acts 17:24-38.
The evidence for there being a God is all around us. From the largest galaxy in the heavens to the smallest sub atomic particle everything is in balance. Everything works in harmony to sustain life as we know it.
It happens this way I believe because God created it that way.
The book of Genesis makes it clear,
“In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.” 
                                                                           Genesis 1:1
Genesis does not debate the existence of God it simply states this is what God did end of story.
I could write pages on why I believe God exists but ultimately it is an act of informed faith.
I believe all one has to do is look around us to nature and see how it very much lines up with the Bible.
The choice to believe or not to believe there is a God is up to you. Do we as Einstein said,
"Human beings vegetables  or cosmic dust. We all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible player."
                                       Albert Einstein.
Is that player God?
The choice is yours. Think about it.