Today I had a driving lesson.
Being in control of something so powerful as a car is a pretty scary thing. A car has the potential to take you from A to B (or indeed, T to N to F to V if need be) quickly and directly, but it also has the potential to do so much damage. My mum was, about a year ago, involved in a "road traffic collision" (the politically correct name for a road accident). Her car was ploughed into from the side shunting her into a central reservation as she came off a roundabout. Luckily she wasn’t seriously injured, just done her back and shoulder in for a few days. As I was driving today, the wind was pushing me from side to side at times – it sometimes felt like I wasn’t in control!
God’s in control though. God who made the universe from the gigantic galaxies, planets and stars to the minute such as the cells, particles and atoms that make up our world around us.
There are a whole plethora of calculations on the probability of life existing anywhere in the universe. Let’s just say it’s not very probable. There's so many things that have to be "just right" for earth to exist with water and and atmosphere, never mind life. For a planet to support life it has to have the "just right" level in so many areas. The odds of them all occurring and for the building blocks of life to “just happen by chance” are the same as a man finding the same grain of sand after being blindfolded and randomly dropped in the Sahara Desert three different times!
The chance of winning the full UK lottery is about 1 in 10^7.14 (1 in 13,983,816 to be a bit more precise). The chances of life existing may be something like (according to one scientist) 1 in 10^8318 (i.e. 10 with 8318 zeros after it)! To be honest, it will probably be even more unlikely than that.
God’s in control though. God who made the universe from the gigantic galaxies, planets and stars to the minute such as the cells, particles and atoms that make up our world around us.
There are a whole plethora of calculations on the probability of life existing anywhere in the universe. Let’s just say it’s not very probable. There's so many things that have to be "just right" for earth to exist with water and and atmosphere, never mind life. For a planet to support life it has to have the "just right" level in so many areas. The odds of them all occurring and for the building blocks of life to “just happen by chance” are the same as a man finding the same grain of sand after being blindfolded and randomly dropped in the Sahara Desert three different times!
The chance of winning the full UK lottery is about 1 in 10^7.14 (1 in 13,983,816 to be a bit more precise). The chances of life existing may be something like (according to one scientist) 1 in 10^8318 (i.e. 10 with 8318 zeros after it)! To be honest, it will probably be even more unlikely than that.
But, God is always in control. We may not know exactly what God has planned for us, or why things happen – but we need to (well, I certainly need to) trust more. Children trust that the car will move, that the plane will fly, that the cakes will bake and taste yummy. They do not know any more than the very basics of a wheel turning to make a car move, or the heat making the cake rise – certainly not how the physics and mechanics of things work – but they trust they will. We may not know how a medicine works – but we trust the doctor who tells us to take it that it will help to make us better.
I trust all of these things, so how much more should I trust God; the God who made me and knows everything about me.
Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God. ~ Corrie Ten Boom.
God Bless, Morrison
Trust in the LORD with all your heart
and lean not on your own understanding;
in all your ways submit to him,
and he will make your paths straight.
~ Proverbs 3:5-6
So always trust the LORD
because he is forever
our mighty rock. ~ Isaiah 26:4
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