Perfection

So, I was watching Apollo 13 on AMC and had a thought about the planets.  Have you ever noticed that the planets are all spheres?  Although they have some areas that bulge out slightly around their equators, every planet is essentially a perfect sphere.  Have you ever noticed that all of the planets in our solar system, although composed of different elements, compounds and mixtures of materials, all do the same thing, rotate on an imaginary axis?  All 8 (9 if you still have an affinity for  Pluto) planets are perfectly aligned, rotate perfectly on their axes and orbit the sun in a perfect ellipse.

Why am I saying this?  In looking into the solar system, what we see is an example of God's magnificent creative power and His might.  We also see His attention to detail.  Each planet, although rotating on an axis and orbiting in an ellipse, do not do so at the same rate.  In 24 hours,  the earth rotates once on it's axis and in 365 days it orbits the sun once.  Contrast that with Jupiter which rotates once on its axis in about 9 hours and takes about 11 earth years to make a full revolution around the sun!

Have you ever wondered why planets are spherical in shape?  Gravity basically causes all of the planets to have the same shape.  If the planets were cubic in shape, the corners of the cube would eventually collapse which would be a disaster on a planet that was inhabited. Since gravity pulls everything toward the center every planet is shaped like a sphere.  It just makes sense that the planets are spheres.  The sphere causes gravity to be evenly distributed on the earth's surface which is very important for those of us that live here.

Is this random or is there a Creator at work?   You know the answer and so do many who choose to deny the answer.   God created the universe and he did it in His own way and in perfection.  God gave the planets their shape because He understood that in order for all things to hold together and for the gravitational pull to be exactly as it should be, the sphere is the most efficient shape possible.  Newton's Universal Law of Gravitation, which says that two objects in proximity exert a gravitational pull on each other and the larger the objects, the larger the gravitational force is between those objects, comes into sharp focus when we consider that all of the planets are pulling on each other therefore stay where they are rather than falling out of orbit.

 When God finally answered Job in Chapter 38 of the same book, God spoke of His awesomeness.  One of the things that God boasted of is the hanging of the constellations:

"Can you bind the beautiful Pleiades? Can you loose the cords of Orion? Can you bring forth the constellations in their seasons or lead out the Bear with its cubs? Do you know the laws of the heavens?  Can you set up [God’s^f] dominion over the earth?"

 

Psalm 147:4 says that God knows "all of the stars by name."  Imagine that, billions of stars in our galaxy alone and God is responsible for placing every one of them where they are and "naming" them!  WOW!  Our astronomers are still discovering stars that God already knows the names of.  He measured the heavens by the span (distance between His thumb and forefinger, Isaiah 40:12), He laid the foundations of the earth and heavens are the work of His hands (Psalm 102:25), He is the Creator of the heavens and the earth (Genesis 1:1) and to top it off, He loves us.  God, the awesome and life-giving Spirit has put his hands to every piece of the universe, His understanding is infinite and yet, He lives in the hearts of each and every believer!  That is worth shouting about!

 

If you don't know anything else, know that you serve an AWESOME and MIGHTY God.  Regardless of what many try to do to minimize Him, He has not changed and He is still as mighty today as He was before he said "Let there be light."  There is NO other God, there is NO other Creator and there is NO other way to God except through His Son Jesus Christ.  Jesus is spoken of in several places of "holding all things together through the word of His power (Hebrews 1:3)" and Colossians 1:16,17 where it says "For by^f him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things were created through him and for him. And he is before all things, and in him all things hold together."  Can you see the majesty and the beauty of divine cooperation between the Father and the Son and how everything in the universe is dependent on this cooperation?  Can you see the perfection in that?  The universe was formed in perfection, the planets have the perfect shape for their purpose, the physical laws that govern their movement were created in perfection...God is perfect.  God is great and greatly to be praised.  Grace and Peace.