In the 1960s J. B. Phillips wrote a book entitled, Your
God is Too Small. The title can apply to all of us. Our understanding of God is always too
small. Our finite minds have limited comprehension of the infinite power and presence of God. In his introduction
Phillips wrote, “God is immeasurably ‘bigger’ than our forefathers imagined,
and modern scientific discovery only confirms their belief that man has only just begun
to comprehend the complex Being who is behind what we call ‘life.’”
Once in awhile science gives us a hint. Voyager 1’s almost 50-year-old journey to
the edge of the Solar System does just that.
Next year, November 2026, Voyager 1 will achieve a literal
“milestone.” Launched in 1977, traveling
at 38,025 mph, Voyager 1 will reach 1 light day from earth, the distance light
travels in one day. 50 years and it is
just now on the doorstep of interstellar space.
Of course, one light year requires 365 light days. So, it will take another 17,500 years for
Voyager to travel one light year from earth.
The nearest star to earth is Proxima Centauri, 4.25 light
years away. Since Voyager 1 has already
been traveling 50 years, it should reach Proxima Centauri in another 74,325
years. The most distant star from earth, that we know of, is 28 billion light
years away. Our universe is incredibly
immense. That being the case, consider
how immense the Creator is. This is why
the Bible says God is “from everlasting to everlasting.” To God “1,000 years is like yesterday when it
passes,” (Psalm 90).
In his book, Rumors of Another World, Philip Yancey
wrote, “I find more of a spirit of reverence among secular science writers than
in some theologians. The wisest among
them admit that all our widening knowledge merely expresses our more-widening
pool of ignorance.”
Albert Einstein stated, “The most beautiful thing we can
experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science. He to whom this emotion is a
stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good
as dead: his eyes are closed.”
C. S. Lewis cited the source of intelligence as his turning
point from atheism to faith, and eventually Christianity. The intelligent source of all creation wrote
himself into His own creation when “the Word became flesh and dwelt among us,
full of grace and truth.”
John expressed the immense mystery of God and incarnation in
this way, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God,
and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All
things came into being through Him, and apart from Him not even one thing
came into being that has come into being. In Him was life, and the life
was the Light of mankind. And the Light
shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not [grasp it,”
(John 1:1-5).
