Hello, everyone.
So nice to be back with you with another
biblical prescription for life.
Today, I want to talk to you about being positive.
Something to be positive about.
You know, our world is full of negatives and negativity
really damages our chemistry on numerous levels.
So I know we've been talking about a lot of different health subjects
and we've been talking about the pandemic and issues related to that.
But today, I want to give you something positive,
something you can feel good about, something you can look at and enjoy.
But before we do this, let's start with a biblical prescription.
I'm going to the Word of God where we can hear God's voice speaking to us
with something we can keep inside of our our hearts, our minds.
And that solves 19/1 one.
The heavens.
Declare the glory of God.
And the firmament shows his handiwork.
Let's bow our heads in prayer, Father.
Open our minds.
To your glory today.
Bless us and heal us. Is our prayer.
Amen.
Well, if you've been watching the news
or talking to other people or looking at the social media,
there's been a lot of negativity in the world.
You know, we think about what's going on in Ukraine.
Then I hear something's going on in Panama now.
Then the economy, you know, the other day,
just putting gas in the car is sort of a negative thing now.
All the COVID variants that are going on, what to do
about the American variants.
If you think about it and listen,
the list goes on and on and on.
But remember, negativity is not very positive.
So today, I want to really focus on something
that I think we can be positive about,
something that will make us feel
good, something that will take us away
maybe from some of the negativity that's going on all around us.
Because, remember, continuous negativity that causes stress and damages
our chemistry, makes us get older, causes us not to sleep good at night.
Remember, whatever we put in our body stays in our bodies.
And the more negativity we put, the more our brain just has to deal with it.
And that's a stressor, at least for me.
So today, let's put some positives.
We've talked about the importance of thanks and praise,
but what are some other things that we can be positive about?
Well, I recently went to this
website, NASA's dot gov, and I don't know if you've heard,
but the James Webb Space Telescope started
sending signals back to Earth.
And I want to show you some of these
remarkable, remarkable pictures.
And as you look at these pictures, I think that this will
give you something to be positive about, to see the vastness
of the universe, to experience just a little bit of the glory of
the God of what we're talking about here in biblical proscriptions,
about how we can depend on the word and how we can inour relationship
with a God of the universe who wants to heal us forever in his way.
So the first picture I want to show
is a picture of the Carina Nebula.
Well, I just want you to look
at the Carina Nebula for a few moments.
Look at the incredible pictures
and the details that's come from the James Webb Space Telescope.
Now we're seeing more than we've ever seen before.
And yet this is just a very little about what's out there.
So this is the James Webb Space Telescope
giving us a picture of the Carina Nebula.
Now let's show another picture.
This next picture is of Stevens Quintet.
Stevens Quintet.
And look in there, you can count.
There's five different galaxies.
Now we are a part of the Milky Way galaxy, which is very,
very vast, so much that we can't even think about it.
But this is Stephen's quintet,
which represents five galaxies.
Now, if you can't feel positive about that
or understand the greatness of the universe
and appreciate that some creator being our God, that we're trying to,
we are entering into a relationship.
That's just an amazing, positive thing to behold.
Now I want to show you another one.
This last one I want to show you today
is the Southern Ring Nebula.
The Southern Ring Nebula.
And just to give you a feel, this is 2500 light years away.
2500 light years.
And how much is one light year?
Well, one light year is about 6 trillion,
6 trillion miles or 9 trillion kilometers.
And this is 2500 of those away. So.
That is so vast, so large, so enormous.
Wow. Look at the Southern Ring Nebula and all of these pictures.
And I want to invite you to watch these again.
And if you need something to brighten your day among the negativity
that's been created on our earth, just look at this.
This is something to be positive. But.
Appreciating.
And praising.
And sharing God's glory is definitely something
to be positive about, something that will improve
your physiology today.
Back to our text and I want you to hold it with you
today as you go back to these positive glimpses.
These are just glimpses of the vast universe just
just so vast and so great.
The heavens, declare the glory of God
and the firmament shows his handiwork.
So I'm hoping as we look at these pictures,
we can declare the glory of God.
Well, I want to thank you today and encourage you to be positive.
Share these beautiful pictures with the friend.
Give it a thumbs up.
And I hope to be back very, very soon
with yet another difficult prescription for life.