Just when you think you have enough to worry about, here’s something else to add to your list: “Only 5 Billion Years Until The Milky Way Gets Gobbled Up.” This is the title of Rachel Feldman’s article published on the Washington Post’s website on September 19. Feldman reports on a recent study published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. Unbeknownst to most of us, apparently “...galaxies turn to cannibalism when they get too big to keep growing on their own.” The threat to our little corner of the universe comes from the “nearby” Andromeda galaxy. “But the Milky Way isn’t going to be able to outrun Andromeda. In about 5 billion years we’ll collide with the nearby galaxy, which contains at least twice as many stars as our own. To Andromeda, we’ll be nothing but a cosmic candy bar.”
While the prophet Habakkuk lived in pre-scientific times and knew nothing about galactic cannibalism, he knew something about having his world crumbling down around him. He saw the sin of his fellow Israelites and prayed to God for an answer. But the answer proved to be even more terrifying: God was bringing the Chaldeans as judgment upon Israel! Habakkuk struggles with all of this, but ends the book that bears his name with a great statement of faith: “Though the fig tree should not blossom and there be no fruit on the vines, though the yield of the olive should fail and the fields produce no food, though the flock should be cut off from the fold and there be no cattle in the stalls, yet I will exult in the LORD, I will rejoice in the God of my salvation. The Lord GOD is my strength, and He has made my feet like hinds’ feet, and makes me walk on my high places: (Habakkuk 3:17–19).
Those with faith in God do not have to worry about galactic cannibalism. May God help us to have the kind of faith that trusts and rejoices in Him regardless of the threat we face.
God loves you!
Mike
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