Stop and Notice!

Psalm 72: 5

He will endure as long as the sun, as long as the moon, through all generations.

Did you know that the sun is the closest star to the earth?

It’s 870,000 miles wide—it’s 109 times larger than planet earth—the core temperature of the sun is 10,000 degrees Fahrenheit.

Yet without the sun, the earth could not support life.

And yet when we think about Who hung the sun in the balance of the solar system, we still walk around like a bunch of frightened school children sometimes.

The God that loves you and me, knew a long time before we even entered the scene, that we’d needed the sun to survive.

The sun is not God’s greatest achievement by far—we are!

So the next time you begin to fret about what’s in your refrigerator to eat—or wonder where the next dollar is going to come from—maybe you need to look up.

I wonder how many times out of a given day, do we look up at the sun, and then give God thanks and praise?

I’ll be willing to bet, hardly ever.

Stop and notice God’s love for you.

Gaze upon that big yellow ball in the sky, and then wonder what it must have been like, when God spoke it into existence.

I know—I know—don’t look too long at the sun, or you’ll go blind….

But then maybe we have been blinded by the things of this dead and dying world—that we hardly even notice the great things of God anymore.

Maybe it’s time to ponder the great creation of our God, and His great love for us.

Maybe it’s time to stand still and reflect—and then truly be warmed by the Son….