God's Meticulous Designs

Here I am again with you, my family in Christ. It is a privilege for me to be allowed by God to present the word for today. As in each Sunday I hope to say something that will engage your hearts and minds to a fuller relationship with God the Father, Christ Jesus the Son, and the Holy Spirit. And I hope to do so by conveying to you the wonderous things God has done.

[Title: God’s Meticulous Designs]

The definition of meticulous is this: showing great attention to detail; very careful and precise.

Today we are going to look at the God’s careful and precise designs in creating this world, so that you and I can inhabit it.

And the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah, saying, “Thus says the Lord: ‘If you can break My covenant with the day and My covenant with the night, so that there will not be day and night in their season, then My covenant may also be broken with David My servant, so that he shall not have a son to reign on his throne,

and with the Levites, the priests, My ministers. As the host of heaven cannot be numbered, nor the sand of the sea measured, so will I multiply the descendants of David My servant and the Levites who minister to Me.’”

Jeremiah 33:19-22

This passage, written some 2500 years ago first issues a challenge: Can you stop the cycles of day and night? If you can, then you can stop my plan for salvation. Then without worrying about the answer God goes on to tell us something of His design of the universes.

These verses claimed that there are billions of stars ("host of heaven" is the biblical term for the stars). When this statement was made, no one knew how vast the numbers of stars were, as only about 1,100 were observable. Now we know that there are billions of stars, and that they cannot be numbered, because we are still finding newer ones. Several other passages assert that the stars are innumerable (Gen 15:5, Gen 17:7, Heb 11:12). Now, this does not necessarily mean that we are incapable of mathematically expressing their number. It means that no human could count them individually to achieve their sum. It is claimed that there are 100 billion stars in our galaxy alone. If stars were counted around the clock at one star per second, then it would take over 3000 years just to count these. Add to this the fact that there are as many as 100 billion galaxies. However, there were many scholars prior to Galileo who believed that the stars could be counted, and several attempts were made to do so. Many of these counts arrived at around 1000 stars.

He stretches out the north over empty space; He hangs the earth on nothing.

Job 26:7

This verse, written some 3,500 years ago, claimed that the earth freely floated in space. Science, in early times then thought that the earth sat on a large animal; which was a good working theory because they also thought that the earth was flat; more on the flat earth theory a little later. In Greek mythology, Atlas is a Titan condemned to hold up the heavens or earth for eternity after his war with other Greek Gods. We now know that the earth indeed free floats in space. The reason the earth free floats in its place aligned with the other planets science still has little understanding of, but God knows the why’s and how’s because it is His meticulous craftmanship and design.

Their line has gone out through all the earth, And their words to the end of the world. In them He has set a tabernacle for the sun, Which is like a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, And rejoices like a strong man to run its race. Its rising is from one end of heaven, And its circuit to the other end; And there is nothing hidden from its heat.

Psalm 19:4-6

Bible critics have scoffed at these verses, saying that they teach that the sun revolves around the earth. Science told them that the sun was stationary. Then they discovered that the sun is in fact moving through space at approximately 600,000 miles per hour. It is traveling through the heavens and has a "circuit" or a path, just as the Bible says. It is estimated that its circuit is so large, it would take 200 million years to complete one orbit. And in that circuit the earth and all the other planets follow along as God’s epic design demands.

It is He who sits above the circle of the earth, And its inhabitants are like grasshoppers, Who stretches out the heavens like a curtain, And spreads them out like a tent to dwell in.