Lockdown 184

Lockdown Day 184 - 26 September 2020

Today, winter came back. We were greeted with a very cool breeze while walking our Saturday route. What started out as a summer 10°C, ended as a wintery 9°C at bedtime. The moon's conjuncture with Jupiter and Saturn had shifted with both planets hanging west of the moon. Mars also joined the party after dark.  

According to Nasa it will be the first time since 28 May 2000 that Jupiter and Saturn will showcase a great conjunction on 21 December 2020. This will be the closest Jupiter-Saturn conjunction since the year 1623. 

Astronomers use the term great conjunction to describe a meeting of the solar system’s two biggest planets, Jupiter and Saturn. Apparently September 2020 is a good time to start watching these planets getting into position.

Watching the moon tonight and these two planets together with a ruby-coloured Mars, evokes an understanding of eternity and the indescribable enormity of the power of our Creator. 

The physics, chemistry and sheer brilliance of mechanical intelligence together with the mystical energy propelling the universe still doesn't come near to the full identity of God. Words and formulas cannot fully describe or comprehend what 

He is able to do or why He chose us on this little speck of blue to be His people. But He did. And yet, there are still humans who audaciously think they're superior beings.

So tonight as I drink my tea in the cold green room and watch Saturn, Jupiter an Mars twinkle on the Moon's trajectory, I offer up a prayer of praise for this magnificent view which I believe was created for our enjoyment. I shall sleep with the stars in my dreams, resting in the knowledge that my relationship with God is all I need to walk in His glory.

Psalm 8:3-5 says it all:

"Look at the splendor of Your skies, Your creative genius glowing in the heavens. When I gaze at Your moon and Your stars,

mounted like jewels in their settings, I know You are the fascinating artist who fashioned it all! But when I look up and see

such wonder and workmanship above, I have to ask You this question:

Compared to all this cosmic glory, why would You bother with puny, mortal man or be infatuated with Adam’s sons?

Yet what honor you have given to men, created only a little lower than Elohim, crowned like kings and queens with glory and magnificence."

https://youtu.be/aVsqCLyoU3o

God's well and truly got this.