hand studies

Who has ... with the breadth of his hand marked off the heavens?

Isaiah 40:12 (NIV)

"A hand breadth is the distance from the tip of the thumb to the tip of the little finger when the fingers are completely spread apart.

"God is so great that He marked off the heavens by the breadth of His hand. We can't really calculate the distance across the universe. We do know that the nearest star, other than the sun, is about four and a half light years away. Since light travels at the speed of 186,000 miles per second, that nearest star is over twenty-six trillion (26,000,000,000,000) miles away.

"And that's just to the nearest star! The distance across the entire universe, whatever it is, would simply be in an incomprehensible figure to us. Yet God tells us He merely marks off that distance with the breadth of His hand."

—Jerry Bridges, The Joy of Fearing God

Happy First Day of Spring feat. my fave cats!

Un petit chat sur le toit, se languit sans sa Lady ...

"I think I need a little peace"

I think it's so funny that everyone (including me) was expecting 2020 to be such a great year, yet the past two weeks has been nonstop talk about COVID-19 along with a bunch of memes about having no toilet paper. I don't know what interests me more ... to see a lot of people being very fearful about this virus or to see the selfishness in people as we live in this chaotic world.

I don't mean to sound ignorant about this—I definitely agree that we should all be mindful of what's going on and take precaution towards it—but I do believe that God is sovereign over everything that is happening, even the choices that our president makes.

Why should the nations say, "Where is their God?"

Our God is in the heavens; he does all that he pleases.

Psalm 115:2-3

For to us a child is born, to us a son is given;

and the government shall be upon his shoulder,

and his name shall be called Wonderful Counselor,

Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.

Isaiah 9:6

Even with this issue going on, it actually feels nice to be at home and rest from the everyday busyness that goes on—I even got to start sketching again! :)