What a Crazy Love
I’ve been reading this book called “Crazy Love” by Francis Chan over the last few weeks and it has really opened my eyes to some incredible things! For instance, did you know that scientists currently estimate that there are nearly 350,000,000,000 galaxies in the known universe! Most of those have never even been seen with human eyes until their discovery with the Hubble Space telescope. Or that the average elm tree has approximately 6 million leaves on it! (I wonder how they figured that one out) or that the human heart generates enough pressure as it pumps blood throughout your body to squirt blood up to 30 feet! (I don’t recommend trying to prove this) as well as many other amazing facts of God’s creation and genius that it’s just simply “Crazy” that such a vast and creative Lord and Creator, would even want to be concerned with you and I.
The bible says “The heavens declare the Glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of His hands.” (Psalm 19:1) Chan suggests to us in chapter one of his book to “stop praying” for awhile – stop praying to God and take a long hard look at Him without speaking a single word… Solomon warned us not to rush like fools into God’s presence with words, yet often that just what we do.
Funny thing… it was just a week or two after I started reading this book, that a news story came out about one of the smartest men in the world (Stephen Hawking) making the bold assertion that there was no need for God in the creation of the universe! As I listened on to the news story on the news, I became saddened and angry to think that someone so influential could make such a bold and arrogant statement! “How could he say that?” I muttered to myself.
Even so, I quietly continued to read on in my book “Crazy Love” and within a few pages I passed upon another section where Chan quotes again from Psalms. Then I read it and froze for a moment… “The fool has said in his heart, there is no God.” (Psalm 14:1)
I paused in my book, turned off the television set and sat smiling to myself for a few moments as I went outside to look up quietly at all the stars in the sky I could see…
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