Dwarfed Perspectives

Fellow Labourers-

"Perspective is a difficult thing to alter, for there is always so much more than vision involved. We are shaped as much by habit and sentiment as we are by fact and reason. If we will not allow them, our windows on the world will neither expand with discovery, correction, truth, or faith."

I have become very fascinated with Astronomy, so this subject grabs my attention immediately. I can very well remember that August when they decided that Pluto was too small to be regarded anymore as a planet. But let us put this into perspective. Did it affect the price of cheese? Did it affect our lives? I think not. Man is always in the mood for changing things whether it's based on fact or fiction.

Change is neither good nor bad, but to completely do away with the past can have cathostrophic ramifications for the present and the future. This is a fact of history and would be worth our while to become students of history.

I had a discussion with one of my sons in my study just before service yesterday (10-03-10) in which he was trying to show me that the bible teaches that dinosaurs existed. I know for a fact that very large creatures existed in the past but as to what they were called I am not sure. Today they are called dinosaurs etc. So, I won't quarrel with a name because tomorrow somebody else might call them ting-a-ma-gig.

Of a fact the heavens declare the glory of God and the firmament shows his handy works. When Edwin Hubble in 1923 used his new 100-inch telescope on Mount Wilson near Los Angeles to look in the skies he saw galaxies beyond the Milky Way. It was Hubble who discovered that the Andromeda Nebula is some 2 million light-years away-far outside our Milky Way galaxy. For the non-astronomers a nebula is the fuzzy patches of light you see sometimes in the night sky. According to astronomers these are actually other galaxies, with billions of stars, planets, and possibly life like our own. Hmmm. I recommend to you the reading of Job.

Job 38:4-7 (New King James Version)
4 “ Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Tell Me, if you have understanding.
5 Who determined its measurements? Surely you know! Or who stretched the line upon it?
6 To what were its foundations fastened? Or who laid its cornerstone,
7 When the morning stars sang together, And all the sons of God shouted for joy?

Pax Vobiscum

Robert A. Stewart J.P.
Pastor