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.
The sky, I think, is one my most favourite parts of creation. I like flowers and trees too, but the sky, wow, it's amazing. It's constantly changing. I think it changes the most frequently and is the most varied. Bright, blue, pink, orange, grey, black, starry and any of the above combined. Tonight I witnessed the most beautiful sunset. Looking from my 9th floor balcony I could see so many colours, so many combinations, pink clouds, orange sun, meanwhile, on the ground, you could see that it was dark and rainy. So unbelievable. And the stars, oh man. When I was at the horse camp thing a couple weeks ago, I saw more stars in the sky on one night than I think all the night in my life combined. Dang light pollution eh? But it was seriously unreal. Like I was looking at the entire galaxy at once. I remember not being able to look away. I was enamoured by it. I didn't even realize that it was possible to see so many stars at once.
The heavens exclaim the glory of God, the skies shout the work of His hands.
Coming back to the verse, I really want to know what speech and knowledge the sky is so creatively expressing. I looked into stars a little, for this reason. Maybe if I can learn a bit about the sky I can learn a bit about what it's conveying. I learned that there is a star called a Neutron star that is created in the core of a supernova explosion. The star collapses and crushes every proton and electron together, creating only neutrons. Neutron stars are the most dense object known to man. The heavier this star gets, the smaller it gets. It would be like if a 10 pound bag of flour was smaller than a 5 pound bag. One sugar cube of this star weighs about 100 million tons.
The heavens praise your wonders, O Lord, your faithfulness too. For who in the skies above can compare with the Lord? Who is like the Lord among the heavenly beings?
Neutron stars have a mass of between 1.4 and 3 times that of our sun, and are only about 10 miles across. The gravitational pull is 2 x 10^11 times that of earth's. The rotation of the star increases as is collapses. It rotates at about 30,000km/sec. It emits electromagnetic radiation that can be detected on earth in pulses, aka pulsars.
God made two great lights – the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night. He also made the stars.
So what is this knowledge, this majesty that the sky is proclaiming? What does it want to say to us? That everything is an accident? That the purpose of our lives is to do anything we want for us to be happy, rich, successful? Maybe the complex in the sky is showing us that really it's not even about us. The galaxy is so big, so phenomenal, we are actually quite small in comparison.
The heavens declare the glory of God, the skies proclaim the work of His hands.
I've been actively trying to figure out what creation is telling me, but maybe it's right there. Maybe it's just God's way of saying 'Here I am. I did this for you, to prove to you My love. Love that is greater than this tremendous universe. Here I am'.
Give thanks to the Lord, for He is Good; who made the great lights – the sun to govern the day, and the moon and stars to govern the night. His love endures forever.
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