“Praise the Lord from the heavens, praise him in the heights above. Praise him, all his angels, praise him, all his heavenly hosts. Praise him, sun and moon, praise him, all you shining stars. Praise him, you highest heavens and you waters above the skies. Let them praise the name of the Lord, for he commanded and they were created. He set them in place for ever and ever; he gave a decree that will never pass away.” (Psalm 148:1-6)

Day 4, God gets specific. 

In a flurry of cosmic dust, God dots the galaxy with stars and sets up a system in which human beings will live. Marking out days, seasons, years and acting as a broadcast of His power to the universe; the expanse is filled and organized.

The clocklike organization of the universe runs as God created it to run. The sun rises and sets, the moon progresses through its phases, stars are born and die and we live and breathe by the carbon, hydrogen, oxygen and heat energy they emit. Praise God for His solar system!

“The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands. Day after day they pour forth speech; night after night they display knowledge. There is no speech or language where their voice is not heard. Their voice goes out into all the earth, their words to the ends of the world.” (Psalm 19:1-4)

Being made in His image, My husband likes filling our little part of the universe with systems. We are naturally disorganized people; systems help us to function more effectively...if we maintain them! He cries regularly about how the members of His household wreck his systems. When the next panic arises due to disregarding the systems, a flurry of accusations and excuses swirl.

"That's why I made the system! Respect the system...maintain the system!" Poor Phil, he tries so hard!

God did not stop ordering life on the planet with the solar system. There are natural laws and there are spiritual laws that we are subject to...whether we think them true and effective or not. He is not susceptible to people messing with His systems, like Phil, but His creation is. Our stubborn independence won't alter His ultimate purposes but it will ruin us! Funny that in our days and nights we think we can disregard God's systems and blame Him for the resulting panic and disorder!  When living within His systems, we live and breathe in hope-filled order. 

When living outside His systems, we suffer. Read Romans 1! God made life here to run like a finely tuned machine. If we mess with the system, we find ourselves without excuse and no one else to blame!

 "For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood through what has been made, so they are without excuse. For even though they knew God, they did not honor him as God...professing to be wise they became fools...They exchanged the truth of God for a lie...God gave them over to degrading passions...receiving in their own persons the penalty for their error...and just as they did not see fit to acknowledge God any longer, God gave them over to a depraved mind... " Rom. 1:20-21a,22,25a,26a,28a.