(May 30, 2010)

When we go to college, there are some classes that we really, really work hard to avoid taking. So, since History is one of those classes for most students, colleges have begun building a classes called "Big History". It combines astronomy, anthropology and other disciplines into the History context. It allows students to see how they fit into the "Big Picture" and what was going on in the past and how it relates to other issues.

"Big History" is a big telling of His Story. How does "Big History" make a big case for God? Well, let's start by looking at what is not a big case for God that may be taught on college campuses:

Pantheism. This glorifies nature. They believe that creation itself should be glorified.
Naturalism. We just came about...somehow.
Polytheism. This is the worship of many gods...they are false.

Look at the way that we are made. They did not just come together. Let's look at the cosmos and God. Picture the psalmist writing as he looks at the sky. He sits on a hillside in the Middle East. What does he see? He's stunned into worship and reflection.

It takes a beam of light 8 minutes to reach the earth's surface from the sun. If you were to count all of the stars in the galaxy at a rate of one per second, it would take over 2,000 years to count them all.

Know that God's fingers push the heavens into place. He speaks each star's name as He creates it. Makes it seem like we are insignificant, huh? Wrong. Our Little History is just as important to God as "Big History". While God names the trillions of stars, He goes farther with each of us. He cares about each and every one of us. He pays attention to us. He listens to us.

What if the universe was created to show us how awesome our God is and how "Big" He is?

- Jon Bruney
(credit to Louis Gigilio and Bob Kaylor)