Like so many others I am fascinated by the whole idea of space travel. I love all the sci-fi on TV, ‘Star Trek‘; Andromeda’; ‘Dr Who’; ‘Stargate Atlantis’; ‘Deep Space Nine;’ ‘Firefly’; ‘Battleship Galactica’; to name just a few. The idea of travelling to different Galaxies and meeting all kinds of alien creatures sounds like so much fun. Unfortunately it is just a form of escapism because the reality is that we are still a million miles away from anything that resembles such adventure. What man has imagined is out there does not even come close to the truth.
When the scientists explain the expanse of space in terms of millions of miles and light years it’s head scratching stuff. Grasping that our Sun is approximately 83 million miles away from earth just about comes within my comprehension. With the help of a simple drawing I can even understand how our planet and other celestial bodies orbit around the sun and each other in a vast universe that stretches unbelievable distances in all directions. But then to be told the yellow ball in the sky is only one of all uncountable number of similar phenomenon and to be told that many of the stars we see blinking at night are many times larger than our Sun makes my mind boggle.
To realise our universe is only part , indeed, a small part of a much more incredible expanse that can be described like a bucket of water in the middle of a lake and our little earth is a drop in the bucket makes me feel very small. Yet as I think of these things I begin to realise how fantastic is the God I worship.
The Psalmist writes, “When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars which you have ordained.” The vastness of space is hard to comprehend, but my Bible says God cannot be contained in the heavens so great is He. But what is even more wonderful is that this God loves each one of us human beings and has an incredible plan for our lives.
Mick Reynolds
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