Australia.

I was given the opportunity to go to the Continent/Country of Australia when I had graduated from high school. There were a lot of things that stuck out to me when I think about being there. One thing in particular would be the stars at night. You would think the sky is the same here is at is there, however it is completely different. There is a constellation with four bright stars that as you can probably guess form a cross. I love the fact that stars are unchanging. Trees, landscapes, rivers and other things have all changed but over the last 6,000 years for the most part, the stars have remained the same. The captains of the ships Paul were on may have used the north star that for guidance when sailing on the Mediterranean.  Even Orion and the Pleiades are mentioned a couple of times in the word. The same constellation that catches our eyes today caught the eyes of the prophets and the people of God. Job 38 is where Orion and the Pleiades are mentioned.  Job 38 is God’s response to Job’s frustrations with God. The chapter begins with God basically saying “Sit down son. You think you know more than me? ‘Where were you when I laid the earths foundation?’” (Paraphrased) “Job where were you when I made the clouds? The shoreline? The light and the dark? The snow? The hail? The rain? The deserts?” How often we lose our confidence in God when things seem to be falling apart. We might as well be guests in a hotel. We live in a place God has lived inside and out before our most distant relative was born. We are blips in the presence of an eternal God. How much more should we trust in a God that has seen over and over again the good and the bad situations played out in our lives as it have in many other lives in the past?