Sun's Atmosphere Sings better than Sanjaya
The Sun’s atmosphere sings. Like the whales and the wind and the birds, it sings. Who could ever think of something so magical? It's better than Harry Potter.
I read about the singing atmosphere in my Yahoo News. You can read all about it yourself. Why take my word for it?
http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20070419/sc_space/sunsatmospheresings
The article starts: “Astronomers have recorded heavenly music bellowed out by the Sun's atmosphere.”
Why are we surprised? Because it's outside of something we could even imagine! What a cool idea....the Sun's atmosphere, singing loudly, but outside of our ability to really appreciate it. (Kind of like Sanjaya.)
Yet God’s word tells us over and over again that the heavens sing. Consider Isaiah 44:23:
Sing, O heavens, for the LORD has done this wondrous thing.
It brings me to the million dollar question. Is God’s Word actually true, or is it simply a metaphor? Previously (like before this article was printed in Space magazine), we might have read the phrase “Sing, O heavens” and thought, “Wouldn’t that be lovely? But of course that's not possible. It's inert gas.” Or some other logical, discouraging thought process like that.
Yesterday Caroline, aged 10, was studying idioms, which mean descriptive phrases whose meanings are not readily understood. (Believe me, they were NOT readily understood by my solidly scientific sister-scholar.) One example: “our nation stretched out its wings and flew”, describing the young America after the Revolutionary War. We went 8 rounds while I tried to explain what that could mean. Go ahead, try to explain an idiom without using more similes or metaphors.
“Our country was like a little bird being pushed out of the nest.” I tried.
“Our nation was a baby that was learning to crawl." I offered. (At this point, Caroline was so frustrated she started to cry.)
Do we do this with Scripture? Do we think it's full of idioms....descriptive phrases whose meanings are not easy to understand? Do we assume that there is beautiful poetry in there, but it can’t possibly be true? I am sure we do. I’ve done it myself and I dare say, so have you.
It says it rained forty days and forty nights during Noah’s flood. Do we water that down and assume it means something in the neighborhood of “a lot of rain”? Or is it a literal translation?
I am excited to read that the heavens are actually singing. It’s yet another example, to me, that God’s word is true. That is True, with a capital “T”, not true with a lower case “t.”
God, Your word is Truth. All of it. How do I know? Psalm 119:160 tells me so, “All your words are true.” (NLT)
Even, apparently, the singing heavens. How cool is that?
"Pay attention, O Israel, for you are my servant.
I, the LORD, made you, and I will not forget to help you.
I have swept away your sins like the morning mists. I have scattered your offenses like the clouds.
Sing, O heavens, for the LORD has done this wondrous thing.
The LORD, your Redeemer and Creator, says:
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