January 16, 2017 (Monday)
I tuned in to “Weather.com” and heard a guy say that we will be able to see the collision of two stars in the year 2022. 
It will look like a bright star in the sky for about six months. “What’s so wonderful about that?” one may ask. Here’s why it’s wonderful: the event has already happened. In the third century. It takes this long for the light from those stars to reach earth.
As we prepare to see something that will happen five years from now, we will actually be looking at something that did happened hundreds of years ago.
In theory, then, everything that has happened on earth can be seen by an observer on a distant planet if he or she (or it) has a telescope that’s powerful enough. Somebody on a planet thousands of light years from earth could be seeing the inauguration of George Washington today. They would not be seeing a recording of it; they would be viewing the actual even as it happens.
I don’t know about you, but I find it hard to “wrap my mind” around those thoughts. It brings to mind a quotation from the King James Version of the Bible that I first read many years ago: “Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot attain unto it” (Psalms 136:9). In other words, some things defy human comprehension.
While we are meditating upon facts that are hard to believe, why not think for a while about the concept of “infinity?” You know, something that has no beginning, and, as far as we can know, has no end. Infinite. The very idea seems foolish to some, yet science believes in it so strongly it has even invented a symbol for it to be used in all our studies.
Since some things are beyond our limited capacity for understanding, how can a person be dogmatic in insisting that only uninformed people believe in God? Perhaps we should pay closer attention to a quotation from Shakespeare: “There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.” – Hamlet (1.5.167-8), Hamlet to Horatio.
We are on solid ground when we declare our faith. We can say with the Apostle Paul, “I know whom I have believed!” (2 Timothy 1:12).