as we get older, our bodies break down. They don't work as well as they used to. We have harder times recovering from workouts. Our metabolism slows down. Our knees and joints will start hurting more. We will start to run into more and more health risks, aches and pains. Clearly, our bodies were not meant for eternity.
Genesis 6:3 tells us that God has limited our years to 120, and nowadays even with the marvels of modern medicine, the current oldest person alive today is only 114 years old. Yet this was not always the case. Adam lived to be 930. Noah lived to be 950, and Methuselah, the oldest recorded man to ever live, lived 969 years. Clearly these men of old did not have bodies which started to break down at 40.
Our bodies may break down in the present age, but when Jesus comes back in power, and everything concerning the end comes to pass, we will be given new bodies. Take a time to think about that for a moment. We aren't given our old bodies restored, but we will be given completely new, eternal, glorified bodies. And we will live in a completely new heaven and earth. John Piper says, "So when God makes all things new, He make us new spiritually and morally, He make us new physically, and then He makes the whole creation new so that our environment fits our perfected spirits and bodies... God will make our relationship with Him new and glorious." This is the great and glorious God that we serve: God isn't just going to revamp an old tattered creation; God's migth allows Him to make a new, glorified creation.
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Wednesday, June 29, 2011
Omnipotent Creator
Creation is mind-boggling. The earth itself is a spectacle. It is where humans have called their homes. It has seen the rise and fall of countless governments and nations. Despite all of man's great triumphs in art, music and literature, the world continues to spin as it always has.
And it is not only the home of humans, but also the dwelling place of thousands upon thousands of different plants, and multitudes of different animals.
As such, our world was placed at just the right distance away from the Sun. It was given the right mixture of gases in its atmosphere, so that essential gases would not escape, or harmful rays or space debris destroy us. It receives just the right mixture of heat from its core as well as heat from the Sun to stay comfortably safe for life on Earth. But our earth is just a smaller feature in our solar system.
Our solar system is but a spec in the Milky Way Galaxy, which is just one of many, many galaxies. There are billions, even trillions of magnificent stars. There are billions, even trillions of magnificent stars. Mike Taylor writes, "Now, Genesis's account of creation is, of course, very much from an Earth-o-centric perspective. But the connotation here... is that the stars were an afterthought! As though God, having made the Earth, then thought to himself, "Oh, OK, we'll have a few thousand million million million stars as well."
Unfortunately, when numbers become too small or too large, they being to lose their meaning. Nonetheless, our world, it would seem, is but an insignificant blip in the grand scheme of the Universe. And yet it holds the firm attention of the All-mighty Creator of the Universe.
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And it is not only the home of humans, but also the dwelling place of thousands upon thousands of different plants, and multitudes of different animals.
As such, our world was placed at just the right distance away from the Sun. It was given the right mixture of gases in its atmosphere, so that essential gases would not escape, or harmful rays or space debris destroy us. It receives just the right mixture of heat from its core as well as heat from the Sun to stay comfortably safe for life on Earth. But our earth is just a smaller feature in our solar system.
Our solar system is but a spec in the Milky Way Galaxy, which is just one of many, many galaxies. There are billions, even trillions of magnificent stars. There are billions, even trillions of magnificent stars. Mike Taylor writes, "Now, Genesis's account of creation is, of course, very much from an Earth-o-centric perspective. But the connotation here... is that the stars were an afterthought! As though God, having made the Earth, then thought to himself, "Oh, OK, we'll have a few thousand million million million stars as well."
Unfortunately, when numbers become too small or too large, they being to lose their meaning. Nonetheless, our world, it would seem, is but an insignificant blip in the grand scheme of the Universe. And yet it holds the firm attention of the All-mighty Creator of the Universe.
Living Life
Just Who Do We Think We Are?
Job is one of the oldest books of the Bible. It primarily focuses on an argument between Job and some of his friends over why Job has suffered the loss of his family, home and possessions. Job's friends claim Job must have done something wrong, and Job insists he is innocent. Eventually God shows up and says, "Just who do you think you are? Can you do what I can? Can you form worlds, take care of the earth, walk in the depths of earth, and make yourself radiate with glory? If you can, show Me. And WHEN you can, THEN we'll talk about how fair I am."
Yet all too often, humanity continues to think too highly of itself. We don't spend enough time coming to terms with how awesome our God truly is. We have come to think that we, who can't even change the color of our hair without some synthetic chemical process, have the right to challenge assumptions. We assume that we possess an individual intellect and moral capacity that rivals that of an eternal and holy God."
God has existed longer than we can imagine. His will is good and sovereign, and He knows what He is doing. Above all, we need to learn to stop second guessing God and just trust because 1)it will never change anything anyways, 2)He's been around a lot longer than us, and 3)He's capable of more than we could ever dream of.
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Yet all too often, humanity continues to think too highly of itself. We don't spend enough time coming to terms with how awesome our God truly is. We have come to think that we, who can't even change the color of our hair without some synthetic chemical process, have the right to challenge assumptions. We assume that we possess an individual intellect and moral capacity that rivals that of an eternal and holy God."
God has existed longer than we can imagine. His will is good and sovereign, and He knows what He is doing. Above all, we need to learn to stop second guessing God and just trust because 1)it will never change anything anyways, 2)He's been around a lot longer than us, and 3)He's capable of more than we could ever dream of.
Living Life
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