Next week, November 18, 2026, Voyager 1 will reach 1 light
day from earth, the distance light travels in one day. Launched September 5, 1977, traveling at
38,025 mph, 10 times the speed of a rifle bullet, it has taken 50 years for Voyager
1 to achieve this “milestone.” One light
year requires 365 light days. It will
take 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 big. If the creation is that immense, how much more so is God.
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.’”
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, ... and the Word became flesh,”
(John 1:1-14). This is the ultimate miracle and mystery that changes everything.
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