Metanoia 3

The World
You... The Secret of Joy in the Bible
Evangelization... Atheism

Oxygen Atom, with 8 Electrons

4- The World:

    We also need metanoia, a radical transformation, about our view of the world.

    God created the heavens and the earth, and everything God created is absolutely glorious and perfect... "And God saw that it was good, and He approved it" (Gen.1)... it is impossible for God to do something that it is not perfect and glorious!... perfectly made, and with a glorious mission to fulfill.

   Every star is perfect... every eagle and every cockroach and every leave is perfect to do what God wants them to do... and, of course, you and I were made perfect and glorious to do what each one us has to do in the plan of God.

    Everything around us was created to sing the glory of God... and they do!... and each one of us, men and women, was created also to sing the glory of God, but we often don't do it, we are free!...

    Our planet Earth weights 6,000 trillion tons... the Sun, 1,500,000 times more, and it is 150 million kilometers away... We all know that there are stars a million times larger that the Sun, and trillions of stars!... Antares of the Scorpion Constellation is 113 millions larger that the Sun ...and all of them moving at astronomical speeds... they all sing the glory of God...

    Indeed our planet is like an atom compared with the universe... almost nothing!... but a great glorious device made to sing the glory and excellence of God.

    "Atoms" are like starts, with a Nucleus like the Sun, and planets around it called Electrons. The Sun has 9 planets around it moving at astronomical speeds... Silver has 47 Electrons (planets), Uranium 92, Hydrogen only one... each Electron is rotating around the Nucleus at 2,000 kilometers per second... in one second each Electron rotates 6 billion times around the Nucleus (yes, in one second!)... and never collide each other, otherwise they would explode as an atomic bomb...

    A drop of water has 10,000 billion of Hydrogen atoms and 5,000 billion of Oxygen atoms... with a drop of water, 10,000 billions of Hydrogen bombs could be made, able to melt our whole planet in minutes...      

    The atoms, like the stars, sing the glory of God... the more the scientists discover, the louder resounds the glory of the Creator...

    A "leaf" of a tree is another marvel made by God... there are over two billion different kinds of leafs. Some trees have over 20,000... and all the scientists of the world have been unable to make not even a single leaf...

    Each leaf have stomas on its back, some of them over 14,000... "stoma" means "mouth", they open and close them to receive the carbon dioxide we exhale, then the plant converts it into oxygen, which is then put out through the same stomas... they are like our lungs, but doing the opposite effect... in fact, the plants are the cemeteries of our carbon dioxide and the factories of our oxygen... we could not live without their work... without them, all of us would become intoxicated with carbon dioxide, and run out of oxygen.

    A person calling himself  an "atheist" is a fool with wickedness, and inexcusable, says St. Paul, since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities--his eternal power and divine nature--have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse. For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools... and the wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of men who suppress the truth by their wickedness. (Rom.1:18-22).

    Asks the Beasts!, says Job 12, who made the  claws of a tiger, or the eyes of an insect, or the mouth of a whale?... all the scientists of the world have been unable to make a feather of an eagle, not even a single "hair" of a lion!.

    The eye of every insect has over two thousand million pieces to differentiate size, shape and color of every object (yes, 2,000,000,000)... science shows us it is something marvelous.

    The ear of every dog and of every human is like a piano, but instead of having 85 keys has 10,500... and every key is not just a key, but it is like a harp with 36,000 cords with 720,000 audio cilia cells in each cord... a total of over one million of instrumental pieces... a wonder of nature!... yes, the more we know, the greater looks the glory of God.

    An what about your brain, or the brain of a fish or a bird?... it is a wonder of wonders... Each brain has nerves going to each part of the body. If we could place each one of your nerves after another they would stretch not only to Los Angeles from New York, they would reach the Moon... and still more, and this is science, they will reach the Sun... over 150,000 million kilometers is the electronic complexity coming out of your brain.... yes, the nervous system of an unborn child is million of times more complicated and larger that the finest electronic equipment made by mankind.

And here come you and me... made at the image and likeness of God, as commented in Metanoia 2.

    We look so little, like a speck in the universe, but we are the greatest creation of God, like God!... and each one of us made perfect for what we have to do:

    Yes, you were made perfect!...

    If you could have chosen the members of your child, you would have chosen the most beautiful and strong and perfect body, and the finest ears and brain and heart, and the most lovable face and eyes... in everything the "most" and the "best"... the person most intelligent, most kind, the best child, the very best human being...

    Well, God made you!... He is your real Father... your parents nor any scientist can't make not even one of your hairs...

    So when God created you, He created the "very best" and the "most" in everything of you, to do what you have to do:

    If you could have chosen your eyes, instead of having the eyes God gave you, you may have chosen the eyes of an eagle, because they can see better, and you would have made a great mistake, because the eyes of an eagle are the best for the eagle, but yours, just are they are, are the very best for you to do what you have to do, not to do the job of an eagle...

    If you could have chosen your body, may be you would have chosen a taller body, or a thinner or fatter one... and your would have been completely mistaken, because the one you have now is the very best body to do what you have to do, and not what your neighbor has to do... there is no one person in the whole world who has a better body than you, to do what you have to do...

    If you envy someone's eyes or face or body or intelligence, you are insulting God, you are blaspheming against God... because God created you perfect, "the very best" and "the most" of every thing you have now, to do what you have to do... there is not a single person who ever had a single hair better that yours... you were made perfect!... Point.

    I don't know your specific mission in the universe for what you were created, as I don't know the specific mission of every star, but God knows!.

    God knows every star of the universe by name!... and He knows you so well and cares so much about you that He has counted every one of your hairs! (Ps.147, Matthew 10:30).

    However, I know something important and sure about your mission now, here on earth:

    You were created to sing the glories of God, like the stars and the birds and the mountains... everything reflects a bit of the glory of God... and you too!...

    But you can praise God or blaspheme against God... animals and stars can't... you were made free!... you can give thanks to God with joy always and for everything, or you can choose to blaspheme against God, complaining about every thing...

The Secret of Joy in the Bible:

    I pray you choose to praise God giving thanks to Him always... in fact, it is the secret of the Bible to pray constantly, and the secret of the Bible to live always with joy here on earth:

    ¹⁶Be joyful always; ¹⁷pray continually; ¹⁸give thanks in all circumstances, for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus. (1Thesalonians 5).