Sitting on the roof watching the stars remembering my position in parallax.  According to the Word of God, my life is but a “vapor” or perhaps some prefer “mist”.  Either way how do I assign that level of importance to each moment so as not to waste an instant?  Can I personally achieve consciousness through meditation allocating each moment appropriate gravity?  Can I obtain the knowledge of God through my own effort working, trying, achieving?  Looking up at the sky from the top of my own creation neither brings me closer “to” nor makes me more “like” God.  The understanding is embedded in the misconception that the relationship is one of time and space (human concepts) instead of love (God defined).

The Hubble telescope illustrates that when you remove the level of viewing obfuscation it reveals that there are more questions to ask, that the universe is more complex than we anticipated.  Just as in the revelation of the complexity of the single cell, there are always more questions revealed than answers given.  These moments seek to confound the scientific, empirical, skeptical or atheistic mind providing no success at becoming closer to God or as some seek joining/becoming God.  Man cannot reach God, God must reach down to man.

If the Lord God Almighty had wanted us to take our lives for granted or to have more than enough time to mess around and still get it all done He would have given us five hundred or a thousand years.   Men like Noah, Methuselah, Adam lived more than seven hundred years, more than enough time to see the promises of God delivered again and again in their lives and the lives of their great, great, great grand children.  It is so sad that men spend their entire fortunes and all their time trying to extend their lives on this Earth.  Such great irony that as we supposedly become more evolved that we get sicker and live only a fraction of time that our ancestors “the simple” man survived.  Yes entropy is the master of our time.

Newton, a Christian, clearly understood not only that our universe is winding down but also saw the artifice for such divine design.  Sin has been gobbling up the gifts of blessing and slowly corrupting, contaminating, putrefying everything that was made perfect.  Sin is the real enemy of God and it must be eradicated from the machinery of creation in order to recreate God’s intention.  This is something beyond our capability and is incidentally the one question that among the world’s philosophies and religions only Christianity answers.

This is one of God’s mysteries that we must go through this entropy to see what happens to a world that does not have the Lord as its center.  In the eyes of eternity we are toddlers who continue to play with matches near oily rags and refuse to comprehend that fire consumes in uncontrollable chaos.  Soon we will have been given enough time to comprehend this lesson and then all those who have “gotten it” will be moved on to the next teaching.  It has to be that way, no use arguing about the rules of a game that we had no hand in creating, just play.  The rules say that success at this game begins at the moment I realize that I am not God and that I must follow His rules not the other way around.

God alone has power over sin.  His power is imputed to me through indwelling of His Spirit not through any of my works, ingenuity or cleverness.  He will rid creation of His enemy, sin.  I can either be cleansed by the blood of Christ to be renewed, refreshed, remade as I was originally intended or I can be disposed of with the cancer when He surgically removes it from the ailing body of His World.  Cleanse me Lord and let me not be tainted by this world, keep me Holy so that I may reside in You for eternity.  Give me a glimpse of what I will become when You rid this world of festering sin.  Praise Jesus.