It took a miracle

Oh how majestic is a starlit night.
Have you ever just went outside in the evening, when the sun has gone to bed and the moon has come out for it's night watch and turned off all the lights around you?  Or have you driven away from the city where it is only you and the sky with no interference of anything irreverent?  Or maybe early in the morning before the dawn awakens and the sun hasn't pushed the moon out of the sky?  If you have have you noticed how bright the sky looks as each star sparkles and twinkles in the heavens above?
This evening as I was leaving my daughters house to come home I stepped outside and the silence of the evening was so peaceful that I paused for a moment and looked up and as I did I saw the night sky freckled with twinkling lights.
Oh the He, the One that planned the heavens and the earth, the I Am, and not just the I Am but the Great I Am, He is the one that set the stars in their place.  When I look up and see the stars when there is nothing to obstruct their grandeur, it takes my breath away.
I am not much of an outdoorsy kind of person, but I will tell you that I love going outside and realizing His creation.
I wonder?  Did He set each one in their place?  Each little dot of fire that lives and has lived for so long in the skies, did He hang each one ever so carefully, or did He just speak them into being, or did He take a handful of fireballs and fling them into space with a hand so mighty that only God could do such a thing,  and they landed ever so precisely where they still stand tonight?  Oh how I wonder these things.
I find it amazing that there are people out there who would choose to believe that there was some kind of big bang explosion of some sort and that matter of all sorts formed into so many spectacular things.  Some rocks, some trees, some fish, birds, flowers.  And not all one kind either, but a plethora of species of these very things.  And that somehow during the process of all this a great ball of fire formed the center of our universe and so many planets started circling this awesome star and low and behold they all started circling it in the same direction.  To me it is a most outrageous thing that they would have the audacity to mock my faith and my belief system in that my God, the one that I love, the one that I believe in, created these things.  That the one I call Maker of the Universe actually spoke everything into being.  As if my faith in my God as creator is a far more less believable concept than the fact that something blew up and poof here we are. 
I will take my faith over poof any day.
Years ago when our kids were small, for Christmas money was really tight.  We barely had enough money to buy the kids a handful of Christmas gifts, we sure didn't have money to buy each other anything, which we rarely did anyways, but it just seems more of a big deal when you don't have the money to do so.  Well this one year on Christmas Eve we were leaving my parents house after seeing my sisters and their families who had come out to visit and Christmas was going to be pretty awesome for them.  My sisters had shown me a couple of things that their husbands had gotten them for Christmas and I was very happy for them.  So as we were driving home the kids were quiet in the backseat of the car and it was a still of the night kind of thing when across this most beautiful star laden sky a shooting star slowly moved through the night.  Jimmy saw it first and grabbed my hand and pointed it out.  We watched it together as it slowly disappeared into forever.  It was breathtaking.  After a while he told me he was sorry he couldn't give me presents like my sisters had received, which is really funny like I said since we never really gave each other anything for Christmas hardly ever anyways, but I just smiled and told him that he had given me the best Christmas present ever, better than anything my sisters had got from their husbands that night, he had given me a shooting star.  It was one of the best presents that I have ever gotten from him.
One of my favorite songs is "How Great Thou Art."  My heart swells with love and joy and excitement every time I look around at His creation.  My insides strain against my skin as if they are trying to reach God and just pour out my love for Him in praise and adoration.  How great thou art my very soul cries out. 
The word of God says that if I (we) do not praise Him then the very rocks will cry out.  I was created to worship Him, to love Him, to honor Him.  With every breath I have, with every cry and every beat of my heart I pour out my love to Him.  For not only is He the maker of the universe, the planets, the stars, the whole earth, He is my creator.
In Jeremiah 1:5 He tells me He knew me before He formed me in my mothers womb.  In Psalm 139, probably one of my most favorite passages in the bible, His word tells me how much He intricately knows me. 
One of my other favorite songs is "It took a miracle."  If He took such great care in placing each star in it's place, to hang the world in space and we call these miracles, how much more does He care for me and you that He gave His only Son for us.  That He would send Him to hang on a tree so that all who would believe, have faith, could and would be saved.  That my friend is a miracle, a miracle of love and grace.
So next time you find your self looking at this most majestic universe, at the stars twinkling in the sky above you and your spirit starts to soar and you can't form enough words together to say how awestruck you are at God's handiwork, I tell you now that the real miracle is the love and grace that He offers to you everyday.
Oh Lord my God, when I in awesome wonder, consider all the worlds thy hands have made.  I see the stars, I hear the rolling thunder, thy power throughout the universe displayed.  Then sings my soul, my Saviour God to thee, How great thou art, How great thou art.  Then sings my soul my Saviour God to thee, How great thou art, How great thou art.