Outer Fringes

Recently I was amazed at a photo of the Pillars of Creation, a star-forming region in deep space, taken by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. It captures a breathtaking image of archlike columns of dust and gas where newly formed stars are taking shape.

Job spoke about the many unimaginable and incredible works of God.

He proclaimed God’s power in suspending the earth over nothing, in churning up the seas, in wrapping up the waters in the clouds, and in turning the skies fair by a simple breath. Then Job followed this with an amazing declaration: “These are but the fringes of his ways; how faint a whisper we hear of him!” What a thought! My mind can’t fathom that the wonders of nature are just the outer fringes of God’s works.

If the colors of autumn, the beauty of a first snow, and the Pillars of Creation are but a faint whisper of who God is, we are indeed loved and held securely by an incomprehensible God.