April 26 - Reading 24: Psalms 75-77

“Who is so great a God as our God? You are the God who does wonders…”

(Psalm 77:13b, 14a)

The sun rises every morning and sets every night, and we tend to think “Of course it does.”  But when was the last time we really tried to comprehend the incomprehensible wonders of creation? Here are a few mind-boggling facts to ponder:

The sun is around 93 million miles away from earth. Can we even begin to fathom that distance? If we drove that distance at 65 miles per hour, non-stop, it would take us 163 years to drive there! Even if we flew at 550 miles per hour, it would take nearly 20 years to arrive. Incomprehensible!

In completing its rotation once every 24 hours, our earth spins at a speed of about 1,000 miles per hour! How is it that this planet can be spinning at that speed, and yet we can experience perfectly still air and can walk around without feeling a thing? That wouldn’t be the same experience if we were shot out of a cannon and hurtling through space at 1,000 miles per hour! Incomprehensible!

But that’s not all. While our earth is rotating 1,000 miles per hour, it is also orbiting the sun at around 67,000 miles per hour. At the same time, the earth, the sun, and our entire solar system is circling around the center of the Milky Way galaxy at about 450,000 miles per hour! Plus, it is estimated that there are over 100 billion galaxies or more! Absolutely incomprehensible!!

Our God spoke all of this into being with just the power of His voice (Genesis 1). When we feel overwhelmed by anything in this brief, temporary life on earth, let’s shift our focus to the power and majesty of the God who has called each one of us “out of darkness into His marvelous light” (1 Peter 2:9).

As we intercede today, let’s remind ourselves we can entrust every detail of our lives to the One who not only calls all the stars by name (Psalm 147:4), but who numbers every hair on our head (Luke 12:7). Incomprehensible indeed!