Brown's Daily Word 11-19-09

Good morning,
Praise the Lord for His Majesty and Authority. We have been studying from the Book of Revelation in our Wednesday evening Bible study. It is exciting to see the Lord at work in His creation. It is exciting to know how the Lord is going to bring His creation to a triumphant consummation, with a triumphant new Heaven and a new earth. Great music, literature, and art have pulled heavily from the Book of Revelation, from Handel’s "Messiah" to Dante’s Inferno to Michelangelo’s "The Last Judgement."

As a young boy I was enthralled and amazed at tall buildings, sky scrapers, and tall and majestic mountains. While attending a conference in Chicago in September, 1985, I made a point to visit the Sears Tower. In July 2009 the Sears Tower was renamed to Willis Tower, but many refuse to accept the name change of Chicago's most iconic skyscraper, with some even starting a petition against it. I found about the some of the facts and figures about the Sears Tower.

I. The Sears tower is the largest building in America
A. It is 110 stories tall and 1,454 feet high.
1. It contains 4.5 million square feet of floor space
2. It took three years to build at a cost of $150 million dollars
3. It contains 43,000 miles of telephone cable, 2,000 miles of electric cable
4. 76,000 tons of steel, 16,000 bronze tinted windows
5. It contains 2,232 steps from the ground floor to the roof
6. It is so tall it can be seen for over 40 miles away.
It is an extraordinary sensation that you get as you stand at the bottom and look up the tower and feel overwhelmed by the immense structure before you. Even those of you who understand what it takes to build a small house can probably only imagine the intricate details and coordination that must have happened for such a building to exist. It is said that if you dropped a pebble or penny from the roof of the Sears tower it would kill someone if it hit them. (Force = Mass x Acceleration, and it would be accelerating the whole way to the ground)
As extraordinary as a building can be it does not hold a candle to our Savior Jesus Christ. Colossians 1:15-20, “He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. For by him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things were created by him and for him. He is before all things, and in him all things hold together. And he is the head of the body, the church; he is the beginning and the firstborn from among the dead, so that in everything he might have the supremacy. For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in him, and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through his blood, shed on the cross.”
Jesus is beyond extraordinary.
Do we want to be a part of something that generations will be baffled at? Let us continue to follow and serve Jesus.
In Him,

Brown
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