A Short History of Nearly Everything

Come near to God and he will come near to you. James 4:8

Recently I’ve been going through an amazing book called A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson. It's essentially a grand sweeping overview of the history of science (therefore implying that sciences is everything--wrong, but besides the point). The author is a somewhat staunch atheistic evolutionsist and yet I cannot help but feel wholy connected to God as I read this book. All of the facts and proofs of evolution, the miniscule chances of probability that lead to our existence, and structures of the world only do more to edify my amazement that there is a God that does so much for us. To think he created this perfect universe, with everything working perfectly, just so that we could Love him and find ourselves in him.

At this point in the discussion I usually launch into my usual apologetical tyrade on the proofs of God's existence and how it relates to science -- or actually, doesn't relate to science. But I will spare the readers; for the moment at least.

I say all this because it amazes me that God has done so much for us in creating this perfect universe which at every level of examination cries out to us and yet we still abandoned him. That he went further to reach out to us through His son and yet we still rejected him. And despite all of this, He continues, in our lives, to reach out to us! That in the infiniteness of the expanse between us and Him, that all we must do is take the first step to be near to Him and He shall come running to we prodigal children with open arms.

It's so easy to get caught up in the vastness of the difference and forget who it is calling us. We focus so much on the human distances between us and forget that God can call us to him at any moment -- we call it death. That it is not so much about us arriving at Him, but reaching out to Him.

God created the universe in all it's splendor, gave His son to die on the cross, and His spirit, so that we could take the first step toward Him.