Seeing The Unseen

“A mind stretched by a new idea never returns to its original shape.” - Oliver Wendell Holmes.

Our current sermon series is entitled The Physics of Faith. My hope is that our minds will be stretched to explore the amazing awesomeness of God!

Hebrews 11:3 says, “By faith we understand that the universe was formed at God’s command.” It takes faith to believe in the God of Intelligent Design who created the universe. You can’t prove or disprove scientifically the creation story of the Bible. However, it also takes faith to believe in the God of random chance, Big Bang, and evolution. In fact, I think it takes more faith.

Sir Fred Hoyle, an astronomer, made this statement to the British Academy of Science years ago, “Let’s be scientifically honest. The probability of life arising to greater and greater complexity by chance through evolution is the same probability as having a tornado tear through a junkyard and form a Boeing 747 jetliner.” Hoyle calculated the chances of life being the result of random chance as being 1 in 10 raised to the 40,000th.

Albert Einstein said, “There are only two ways to live your life. One is as if nothing is a miracle. The other is as if everything is.” 

I mean, take this example. Right now you feel as though you are not moving at all. However, as you are reading this, the planet is spinning at approximately 1,000 mph, making a complete revolution in 24 hours. Not only that, we are traveling through space, in our annual journey around the sun, at approximately 67,000 mph. You will travel 1.3 million miles today!

When was the last time you thanked God for keeping us in orbit? Most of us take constants for granted! Few of us get to the end of the day and say, “God, thanks for helping us make the full rotation today!”

Here is the problem with God for most of us...He is so good at what he does that we take Him for granted. He is so faithful, powerful, loving, and wise. And He is completely constant in these qualities. James 1:17 declares that God "...does not change like shifting shadows." He is the ultimate constant. But we tend to take constants for granted.

Here’s what we are going to explore this week: Our lives are utterly dependent upon things we can’t see and don’t understand. We are surrounded by miracles. We just take them for granted. We are going to focus on one of those miracles that I think is most amazing, yet primarily taken for granted.