The Creator

Documentaries are boring. That's what I used to think when I was young and knew everything. (Ahem.) Second rate filming? Naturally.  But don't be snobbish - these people are on a budget, you know?  I just watched Discovery Channel's How the Universe Works and, boy, was it an eye opener. 

First, a few comments: 

1. Mike Rowe of Dirty Jobs is the narrator.  His voice is low, mellow, and soothing and I usually end up taking a nap halfway through an episode.  I can't help it.  I'll even turn on an episode I've seen before just so I can sneak in a quick nap.  He's better than a lullaby. 
2. The graphics are top notch.  Half the time I can't tell which scenes are actual pictures from space and which are simulated.  Discovery, apparently, has the money to make a decent documentary.
3. I'm pretty sure I was supposed to learn everything about space in the 5th grade.  Either that didn't happen or I forgot everything except the earth revolves around the sun.  The shows are a great teaching tool.
4. All the experts interviewed are the hard core scientist type.  Their explanation for everything involved the words 'lucky for us', 'by chance' or 'fortunately.'  God received zero credit.  But, maybe He can't receive credit on a Discovery sponsored show?  I don't know. I hate politics. 
5. Speaking of God, I learned something about Him that thirty-three years of Sunday School hadn't been able to get through my thick skull.

God is not just the Creator.  

As I watched each episode, the first being titled The Big Bang, I was blown away at the images of space they showed.  Unimaginable beauty.  Different gases mingling together made blankets of rainbows that were awe-inspiring.  God is an Artist.  An absolute artist. 

According to the show, the beginning of the universe was simply an explosion that occured billions of years ago.  From that explosion, elements were created that eventually formed with other elements as they were hurled through space from the blast.  Be they right or wrong, (I'm not here to debate the Big Bang theory) what amazed me was that I learned the universe is still exploding.  Stars, like our sun, that are dying will implode, then explode.  And the explosions are beautiful.  Arcs of light and color shooting out from the sphere and then the remaining gases as they linger around the star's core.   

Helix Nebula

The Helix Nebula is an example of a dead star.  A dead star.  That's the most beautiful dead thing I've ever seen.  Which leads me to the thought that God made death to be beautiful.  (Note: The colors seen are actually gases reflecting the light from the remnant of the star - that small white dot in the middle.) 

The light and energy created from one star's death is atomic.  In death, a star is more powerful than in its life.  Amazing. 

The rock, elements, and gases blown off a dying star are the building blocks of new planetary systems.  God fashioned the cosmos in such a way that in violent death, potential life was born.  Born and available to be fashioned into something new.  

God is not just the Creator.  He is the Creator of things that create.  Nothing He made was  stagnant or finite.  Everything created in the beginning was meant to create, then recreate  on its own.  It is cyclical by design.  Life, be it in the heavens or on earth, is full of inherent potential.  The potential to create. 

My mind naturally veers off on a tangent.  As living human beings are we creating?  Not just physically with progeny, but spiritually.  Those who have been filled with the Spirit of God possess spiritual creative power.  The potential to create - spiritually.  The Bible refers to God's Spirit as 'rivers of living water'.  Living, by default, means creating.  Spiritually creating what? Which begs the question; if something isn't creating, is it really living?  Is it dormant?  Untapped?  Unused?  Neglected?

Asking the questions is easy.  Answering them is not.  I'll stick to asking them and let someone much smarter than I answer them. 

Until next time.