The Way I Was Made

 

O LORD, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! You have set your glory above the heavens.    Psalm 8:1

 

American Astronomer Carl Sagan said this:  “As long as there have been humans we have searched for our place in the cosmos. Where are we? Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people.”

Did you know that light travels 186,000 miles per second.  That's about seven times around the earth in a second.  It takes eight minutes for a beam of light to travel from the sun to earth.  In a year the same beam travels almost six trillion miles.  Scientist call this a light year.  Eight billion light years from earth is halfway to the edge of the known universe.  Within the universe there are a hundred billion galaxies, each with a hundred billion stars on average.  

King David, while looking at the stars asked "

When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, what is man that you are mindful of him, the son of man that you care for him? (Psalm 8:3-4)

Why does God care about us or even notice that we exist?  Simply put, We are created in the image of God to serve and glorify him forever.

 

Over the next several weeks we will consider what it means to be created in the image of God.   Join us as we consider "The Way I Was Made"