I have an inner science geek that just gets the best of me sometimes.
Like tonight when I was glued to the Nova documentary on String Theory, I was absolutely mesmerized as Brian Greene explained how this one theory attempts to merge both gravity and electromagnetism and quantum mechanics into one explanation of the entire universe.
Or the other night when my unsolicited thoughts on dark matter and dark energy sent me on what probably wasn't an all too coherent explanation of the latest book I've been reading to my friend Rendi.
So why I'm attempting to connect thoughts on the space-time continuum with how I feel God's presence at 10:30 pm after a long day is really beyond me, but I've been stewing on it for a while, so what the heck.
The thing is, if it's true that the visible realm only makes of 4% of the universe and some sort of enigmatic dark matter and dark energy that we can't see comprises the rest, it only makes sense to really search out the unseen things.
"So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal." 2 Corinthians 4:18
It's probably pretty mystical of me to even say that one can sense or feel this unseen realm, but nevertheless, I feel it.
And not only do I feel it, I feel it in varying ways and at different times, but none more strongly than when I'm with a group of believers who are bound together by the Spirit, heads bowed in reverence to the One who gives life and light and truth.
This Great Force has bound me to a group of seven other believers with whom I've shared deep sorrow and great joy with over the course of the past eight years. When I'm with them, I feel like I sense the unseen and hear the unspoken and glimpse the glory and holiness of God.
This Great Force is the witness to and keeper of the covenant I've made in marriage to my husband.
In the early morning as I gather to pray with some of my sisters in Christ, this Great Force will be among us, beckoning us to Himself.
I'm aware of my smallness and my absolute ignorance of what is unseen, but still, pondering the science of the vast universe of all things invisible makes me love and trust God even more.
It's mind-bending love and confusing kinds of grace that the Lord has for us.
I'm as blind as the road side beggar calling out to Jesus for healing.
I can't wait until I can really see.
4 comments:
My high school physics professor spoke of such a thing. Mathematically scientists find two (at least. Now supposedly more) other dimensions outside of the 3 spatial and time. His hypothesis is that they may be heaven and hell. I wish I remembered more of what he told us about it all. I want to say there was more to his idea than just that.
It went way over my head. I do bio and chem science. Physics kicks my hiney.
Seriously! I just finished reading Safely Home (fiction novel about the Chinese church, but based in truth) by Randy Alcorn and he has several chapters on he ideas of what heaven now looks like while it being a place connected to Earth but waiting for the ultimate return of Jesus and all others who have gone before us. Anyway, it was such an amazing picture and at one point the main character is talking with Jesus and he says, "I feel like I was living with only one sense and now I have discovered all 5." Such a clear pic of the simple fact that there is so much more than we can see, taste, smell, hear, and feel. We are so limited. :) Love you friend-
(that was a long comment. like so long that it might should have been a phone call. oh well)
I'll have to hear some of the string theory stuff, since you suffered through the sea salt... And I hadn't even gotten to my thoughts about how Jesus calls us to be salt of the earth and the implications! Seeing God via science is electrifying.
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