Don’t Miss It

We miss some of the most beautiful things because our perspective is off just slightly. Someone offers to take us out to a new restaurant, and we decline because we don’t think it will be our kind of food. Maybe there’s a new album out that really has people talking, but we won’t listen to it because it’s just not our type of music. So many things keep us from experiencing something that could be good for us. Chris Martin speaks to being confronted by the wonder of God’s creation through the images produced from both James Webb Telescope, specifically the Carina Nebula: “Food doesn’t have to be delicious. Flowers don’t have to smell good. And the Carina Nebula—with its light-years high Cosmic Cliffs—doesn’t have to be as beautiful and mysterious as it is. But it is. You can almost see the breath of God (Ps. 33:6) in the Carina Nebula. God crafted this star-birthing supermassive scene to be beautiful—and no humans have seen it until now” (Chris Martin, “God Is Beyond and Behind the Enormous Universe,” The Gospel Coalition, July 14, 2022, https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/article/enormous-universe-james-webb-telescope/).