It has been a while since I finished reading Dr. Stephen Hawking's book, A Brief History Of Time; however, I can tell you that his book finished with me well before I was done with it!
Yes, I will freely admit that the famous British theoretical physicist's "simplified" explanation of black holes, quantum theory, and E=MC squared left me flailing for one non-mathematical shred of reality on which to rest my weary (or was that weird?) mind. Still, I did manage to rise from the Euclidean ooze on brief occasions, struggling to the surface long enough to grasp a few simple concepts.
One of these moments taught me a valuable lesson about the true nature of power. It seems that there are four physical forces in the universe, excluding Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bruce Willis, and Harrison Ford. They are: gravity, electromagnetic, weak nuclear, and strong nuclear. Listen, this is great stuff to keep in mind when balancing your checkbook or making out a grocery shopping list! At any rate, gravity is the weakest of the four. Oddly enough, however, it is also the one that exerts the most influence in our daily lives. It makes certain that our cars will stay where we park them, keeps the Earth going around the Sun, and provides enough friction between our feet and terra firma to allow walking.
How is it you may ask (you very well may not ask, but I will tell you anyway), that the weakest force in the universe is the most prominent? For two reasons: first of all, gravity has the ability to act over large distances; secondly, it is always attractive in nature. That is to say, each particle in the mass of the Earth pulls in the same direction; gravity never fights itself.
...And now, class,we come to the point of our lesson: one does not need a lot of power; one simply needs to exert the power over long distances, and to see that everyone pulls together!
The secrets of Outer Space befuddle me, but I think that I may have some insight here into the inner workings of the Body of Christ. As the Apostle Paul said in I Corinthians 1:26-29, 31 God has never made a habit of finding the strongest, smartest, and most talented people to be His servants. Yet, the true church of Jesus Christ, despit its weakness, can be the most potent force on the face of this planet. All we have to do is commit ourselves to spreading the Gospel over any distance, across oceans or across the street, and see to it that we all pull in the same direction (I Cor. 1:10)!
Because the other three forces in the universe sometimes cause particles to pull against one another, they tend to cancel themselves out. God grant us the spiritual wisdom to remember that our calling is not to push ourselves away from each other in the church, but to pull those who are on the outside to Jesus John 12:32; (2 Cor. 3:2,3).
If you don't know Jesus Christ as your personal Savior, a word of warning: none of the Christians you may know may be very powerful, but there are plenty of us, and we are all pulling for you to come to Jesus Christ for salvation! Let go, and fall upward into the eternal pull of the gravity of God's love for you!
Attractively Yours,
Pastor David Blevins
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