The Sun

As I write this on Monday October 27th the news is breaking about unusually violent sunspot activity. My thoughts quickly turned to signs signalling the approach of Christ’s second coming to this earth. Jesus said, “Signs will appear in sun, moon and stars. On earth nations will stand helpless, not knowing which way to turn from the roar and surge of the sea, men will faint with terror at the thought of all that is coming upon the world.” [ Luke 21:25-27 ]

Astronomers call the sun, ‘exceptional’. It is a single star, not like others in a multiple star system. Although smaller than many stars its mass is much greater. This means it can pour out an incredible 4 million tonnes of energy per second without causing gravitational problems by being too big. The sun is essential to life on earth and every leaf is a solar panel that converts the sun’s energy into food. Although 93 million miles away it is accurately placed. 10% closer and we’d be fried, 10% further away and we’d be frozen.

In view of the sun’s many design features it would be ridiculous to say it arrived by accident. The sun is wonderfully stable and seldom causes us trouble except in this technological age. This was experienced on a small scale in 1989 when ejections from the sun caused huge electric currents in Earth’s upper atmosphere which disabled a power grid in Quebec.

Psalm 19 puts the sun at the centre of ‘the book of nature’ [ Psalm 19:1-6 ]. Then it puts the Son of God at the centre of, ‘the book of Scripture’ [ Psalm 19:7-11 ]. Like the sun, the Bible enables us to see things in their true colours. Finally only the Son of God can bring eternal life into, ‘the book of my life’. [ Psalm 19:12-14 ]

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