The Special of the Day… From the Orange Moon Cafe…
"Launch"
The James Webb telescope, launched in 2021, and activated six months later, has completely transformed physicists' understanding, revealing the universe to be far more vast and complex than ever imagined. The born again believer could easily have anticipated such a discovery.
"Heaven, and the heaven of heavens cannot contain Thee!" (II Chronicles 6:18).
The longer one walks with God through the Lord Jesus Christ in the illumination of the Holy Spirit and the Scriptures, the more His infinite being, nature, and way stretches the heart and mind beyond all capacity. We increasingly recognize that full apprehension and awareness is beyond our current ability to attain, as it will be forevermore. "His greatness is unsearchable… the love of Christ passeth knowledge" (Psalm 145:3; Ephesians 3:19). Thus, when "the things that are made" reveal "the invisible things of Him from the creation of the world" in exponentially enhanced measure, the believer smiles and may respectfully refrain from saying to the physicists, "We could have told you!" But he thinks it! (Romans 1:20).
If we are not being consistently and increasingly overwhelmed by the wonder of our God, we do well to let discoveries of the world and the cosmos lead us to far greater realizations found in the Bible and in our personal walk with the Lord. Like the scientists who expected the Webb telescope to reveal far greater insight into the universe, but realized their anticipation was greatly lacking, the believer must expect to find an infinitely more glorious God awaiting on the sacred page and along the shining pathway. "My expectation is from Him" (Psalm 62:5). Our Father doubtless takes much pleasure in amazing us by His presence, purpose, power, and promise of "exceeding, abundantly above all that we ask or think" (Ephesians 3:20). We must take much pleasure not only in the discovery, but in the journey of anticipation wherein we know that regardless of how much we expect to find, "the unsearchable riches of Christ" will far transcend our expectation (Ephesians 3:8).
Had astronomers not expected to discover new and greater wonders of the universe, the Webb telescope would never have been launched. The principle far more applies to born again believers in the Lord Jesus. The Creator we seek infinitely transcends His creation, wondrous as it is. We must therefore launch our hearts day by day, seeking eternal glories in the Word of God, and expecting His involved presence in our hearts and lives whereby the longer we walk with Him, the more we know our quest will never end. We must anticipate much in order to launch our spirits. As we do, we find gloriously and wondrously more than we could have anticipated as the light that shines upon us and within us radiates from us for the glory of God and the blessing of others. We were made for such wonder, and we must expect to be amazed in this life and forevermore as we set our hearts to soar.
"Many, O Lord my God, are Thy wonderful works which Thou hast done, and Thy thoughts which are to usward: they cannot be reckoned up in order unto Thee. If I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered."
(Psalm 40:5)
Weekly Memory Verse
"He that believeth on Me, as the Scripture hath said, out of His belly shall flow rivers of living water."
(John 7:38)
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