God’s Perspective
on Life
Then Pilate entered into the judgment hall again,
and called Jesus, and said unto him, Art thou the King of the Jews? 34 Jesus answered him, Sayest
thou this thing of thyself, or did others tell it thee of me? 35 Pilate answered, Am I a Jew?
Thine own nation and the chief priests have delivered thee unto me: what hast
thou done? 36 Jesus
answered, My kingdom is not of this world: if my kingdom were of this world,
then would my servants fight, that I should not be delivered to the Jews: but
now is my kingdom not from hence.
· In one second, our sun emits
more energy than man has been able to create since Adam and Eve.
·
Our
sun is only an average-size star. One star, the Pistol Star, produces 1 million
times the energy of the sun and has 100 times its mass.
· Our sun and entire solar
system are just a pinpoint, or small speck, in our Milky Way galaxy.
· Quasars, at the extreme edge
of the known universe, some 1,000 times brighter than our Milky Way galaxy,
emit as much energy every second as our sun does in 10 million years.
· There are perhaps 200
billion stars just in our galaxy.
· If our galaxy was the size
of the North American continent, our solar system would only be the size of a
tea cup.
· While estimates continue to
rise, our galaxy is just one of more than 125 billion galaxies in the universe,
many of which are comprised of 200 billion or more stars.
· Astronomers say that the
total number of stars in space could equal or surpass the total number of
grains of sand on all the seashores of the world, and in most cases they are
separated by trillions of miles.[1]
Matthew 6:19-34
(NRSV)
"Do not store up for yourselves treasures on
earth, where moth and rust consume and where thieves break in and steal; 20
but store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor
rust consumes and where thieves do not break in and steal. 21 For where your treasure is,
there your heart will be also. 22 "The
eye is the lamp of the body. So, if your eye is healthy, your whole body will
be full of light; 23 but if your eye is unhealthy, your whole body
will be full of darkness. If then the light in you is darkness, how great is
the darkness! 24 "No
one can serve two masters; for a slave will either hate the one and love the
other, or be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and
wealth. 25 "Therefore I
tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will
drink, or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and
the body more than clothing? 26 Look
at the birds of the air; they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and
yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? 27 And can any of you by worrying
add a single hour to your span of life?
28 And why do you worry about clothing? Consider the lilies
of the field, how they grow; they neither toil nor spin, 29 yet I
tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not clothed like one of these. 30 But if God so clothes the
grass of the field, which is alive today and tomorrow is thrown into the oven,
will he not much more clothe you-- you of little faith? 31 Therefore do not worry,
saying, 'What will we eat?' or 'What will we drink?' or 'What will we
wear?' 32 For it is the Gentiles
who strive for all these things; and indeed your heavenly Father knows that you
need all these things. 33 But
strive first for the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things
will be given to you as well. 34 "So
do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will bring worries of its own.
Today's trouble is enough for today.
[1] Global Pastor’s Network, Bill Bright Daily Insights: Glory in the Heavens. www.globalpastorsnetwork.org