I came across a scripture in the Bible the other day…it was Amos 5:8 – “Seek him that maketh ^athe seven ^bstars and Orion, and turneth the shadow of death into the ^cmorning, and maketh the day ^ddark with night: that calleth for the ^ewaters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth: ^fThe Lord is his name:” It got me into thinking about science, physics in particular, and how man’s theories of what we’re made of and how we play a role in this great universe has evolved immensely. In fact, it was only a few centuries ago that man proposed that the earth was the center of the entire universe, and that the sun, moon, and stars revolved around this great planet we call earth. It was no sooner than when Galileo put his eyes up to the first telescope, however, that we realized that earth wasn’t the only planet in the outer space. Man came to realize that we might not be alone, and that we might not even lie at the center of our own solar system. Wow, has physics changed. Today we propose physical theories that purport to know everything from the smallest particle that every piece of matter is composed of all the way to how the largest pieces of mass react at speeds close to the speed of light.

If there is anything that modern science has taught me, it’s that there is so much more to life than what the eye can see. In fact, in the whole grand scheme of things, it seems to me that the eye sees relatively nothing. In that scripture I quoted at the beginning, we are encouraged to look to God, that great creator of the universe. That One that encompasses all that we have to see and more. For when we look outside of ourselves, we behold a marvelous piece of work. A piece of work so much bigger than us, something so much more glorious that we couldn’t bear looking back on the idea that we were the glorious ones at the center of the universe. Seek Him that maketh us, and he will show us His glory.