Feb 18, 2017

A daily devotional through the recorded words Jesus spoke while He walked alongside us. Our website http://alittlewalkwithgod.com.

1. Thanks for joining me today for "A Little Walk with God." I'm your host Richard Agee.
2. In the 1950s and 60s, just about every boy I knew thought of being an astronaut at one time or anothers. We were in a space race with the Soviet Union and rushed to land a man on the moon. Everyone around me dreamed of being that person.
3. Scripture
   1. John 8:12
   2. Jesus: I am the light that shines through the cosmos; if you walk with Me, you will thrive in the nourishing light that gives life and will not know darkness.
4. Devotional
   1. As one of my electives as an undergraduate I took astronomy. I got interested in astronomy in Junior High during the height of the space race and our race to the moon. Space and the complexity of the universe fascinated me. I think a great many young men of that time dreamed of screaming away on the back of a Saturn rocket and visiting the stars.
      1. Astronomy class tried to take away some of the wonder
      2. Explained universe and just happenstance of gravity wells pulling on matter and causing the reactions in the stars and formation of planets
      3. Left God out of the equation
      4. Never explained how the Big Bang might have occurred in the first place or who created the dense material from which the Big Bang sprang
   2. Still awed by the universe
      1. Distances are mind-boggling
      2. 32 billion light years to the farthest known galaxy (eight minutes and twenty seconds for light to reach us from the sun, 5.3 hours to reach Pluto)
      3. Billions of galaxies in the known universe
      4. Each galaxy made of millions or billions of stars
      5. Many of those stars have planets
      6. We are only beginning to discover the real scope of the universe over the last 200 years
   3. Think about Jesus 2,000 years ago describing Himself as the light of the cosmos
      1. Pierces through the darkness
      2. Created all the universe in all its vastness
      3. Brings life and sustains it
      4. Set in motion all the rules that lets us exist on this tiny world
   4. That Man, the God/Man, invites us to walk with Him
      1. We will thrive in the nourishing light that gives life
      2. We will not know darkness the thing that brings fear to men
      3. All we have to do is believe in Him for forgiveness and walk in His ways
      4. He will be beside us all the way
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