WHO IS GOD AND CAN HE BE TRUSTED? (7)
Who Is God and Can He Be Trusted? (7)
Series: Wisdom - Suffering, Thinking, Loving, and Living Authentically
Patrick Edwards
Job 38:1-42:6
Introduction
When I was in college I used to frequently go outside at night and find somewhere high above the skyline where I could just sit quietly and gaze into the night's sky. My first year at UVa this meant walking out my dorm and hiking up what was called Observatory Hill. But when I moved off grounds it meant foolishly climbing up the roof of my house. Looking back on it I realize what a foolish and dangerous thing it was. I'd go up into the attic where we had some Dutch Colonial style windows that you could kind of dangle yourself out of to get onto the roof, on which I'd then carefully climb to the roof peak and sit. (Things you do when you're 20 and think you're indestructible)
The reason I'd risk life and limb, however, to do this was because from the roof of my house you could get above the streetlights and really see clearly into the beautiful Blue Ridge night's sky. There's just something marvelous and majestic about the myriad of stars cast against the obsidian backdrop of space. Maybe its our technology; maybe its our hectic and frenetic pace of everyday life; maybe its our lack of ability to just be still and contemplative, but we just don't seem often to stop and to wonder at the world. I don't know, but whatever stress or anxiety or problem I was having down in the world of man, escaping to the skies made those problems seem insignificant and paltry.
The night's sky is truly wonder-full for what makes it so is that it provides a glimpse into the divine. To gaze at the wonders of creation, the nonpareil of the cosmos, offers the observer an unmatched gander, a peerless peek, into the immanence of the eternal. The heavens exhibit an unbridled power, the wedded harmony of chaos and order. The night's sky lays out the reality that the world is far bigger than that which we can understand let alon ...
Series: Wisdom - Suffering, Thinking, Loving, and Living Authentically
Patrick Edwards
Job 38:1-42:6
Introduction
When I was in college I used to frequently go outside at night and find somewhere high above the skyline where I could just sit quietly and gaze into the night's sky. My first year at UVa this meant walking out my dorm and hiking up what was called Observatory Hill. But when I moved off grounds it meant foolishly climbing up the roof of my house. Looking back on it I realize what a foolish and dangerous thing it was. I'd go up into the attic where we had some Dutch Colonial style windows that you could kind of dangle yourself out of to get onto the roof, on which I'd then carefully climb to the roof peak and sit. (Things you do when you're 20 and think you're indestructible)
The reason I'd risk life and limb, however, to do this was because from the roof of my house you could get above the streetlights and really see clearly into the beautiful Blue Ridge night's sky. There's just something marvelous and majestic about the myriad of stars cast against the obsidian backdrop of space. Maybe its our technology; maybe its our hectic and frenetic pace of everyday life; maybe its our lack of ability to just be still and contemplative, but we just don't seem often to stop and to wonder at the world. I don't know, but whatever stress or anxiety or problem I was having down in the world of man, escaping to the skies made those problems seem insignificant and paltry.
The night's sky is truly wonder-full for what makes it so is that it provides a glimpse into the divine. To gaze at the wonders of creation, the nonpareil of the cosmos, offers the observer an unmatched gander, a peerless peek, into the immanence of the eternal. The heavens exhibit an unbridled power, the wedded harmony of chaos and order. The night's sky lays out the reality that the world is far bigger than that which we can understand let alon ...
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