It has been one of the hottest summers on record here in Texas. I just read that here in Austin we are in for our 22 straight days of triple digit heat. This broke the old record of, of course, 21 days.
I see the football season is coming up soon. This always excites me, as a football fan, but more importantly it promises that the heat will end before to long, by January anyway, I mean this is Texas after all.
This got me thinking about how seasons happen,and why. So I did a little "Googling" about the Earths rotation around the sun, our rotation on our axis and stuff like that. I learned all this stuff in school, science, I guess. But a refresher was very interesting. I have always known that the earth is "Titled on it's Axis" and knew this had something to do with the four seasons.
Now, God made all that is, and when He was making the Earth, all the planets, the Sun and all the other stars, solar systems, galaxies, and everything, He had a plan.
I am sure He thought that Seasons would be nice for us here on Earth. Well without Seasons, plants would not have Cycles of growth , there would be no ice forming in the mountains, thus no water melting in the spring and then no fresh water to fill the streams, rivers, oceans. There are many other reasons for Seasons, but you get the jest. So God, who knows all, said to Himself: "I will put the Earth on a slight tilt, this will cause seasons, I will also make the Earth's trip around the Sun not a perfect circle, making it closer to the sun on one trip, and farther away on the other. This will also help with seasons.
I've heard that when we, here in the Northern Hemisphere are in the Summer months, we are actually farther away from the sun then in the Winter season. Why, because we are tilted toward the sun, there by getting more direct sun light then if we were tilted away, as in the Southern Hemisphere. (This is also why they have the opposite season then we, when it is Summer here it is Winter there, and vice versa.
So what am I giving you, besides a refresher course on the planets, and the sun? Our God, who loves us, had the knowledge that just by tilting the Earth on it's axis just a little, would cause the seasons, and all they provide.
Think about it, if God had just put the Earth on a perfectly round circle around the Sun, like our equator matched up perfectly with the suns, the Earth sitting straight up and down, and our trip around the Sun was a perfect circle, exactly the same distance on one side as the other. What would that mean? Well for one thing it would be very boring on this earth. I don't see how we could have any seasons, I mean 85 degrees everyday for our entire life would, believe it or not, get old. There would be no need for a weatherman, there would be no weather that was any different then any other day. Maybe we would still have rain, but that is the only way we would have any degree changes from rain.................
God is so concerned, and has so much love for us, that He knew just this little tilt would be SO good for us. I don't think plants could exist without the seasons, so we might have any in this "perfect weather scenario"
One little "tilt" was all it took to, basically, mean life for our planet. One little "tilt".......Now what problems do you have? What doubts do you still carry? What struggles do you continue to suffer from? There is NOTHING we have problems with, that God cannot solve, with "One little tilt" He solved the problem of life on Earth, so I am sure He would have no problem with our little problem we think is so big, that we cannot continue. Puts it in perspective, doesn't it?
Think about that "Tilt" and think about your problems, which one is bigger? I can see God nudge the earth a little with his hand, just a little push, there perfect.
His hand "nudged" the whole Earth, how can He not solve any problem we have?
One little "tilt"
God will use that same hand he "tilted" the Earth with to help us, ya think that hand is big enough? You bet it is.
Thank you!;)
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