Hi, I'm Jim Dennis and with Dennis Inforum, and this is the Daily article from Monday, August 13, 2018.

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen, not only because I see it, but because by it, I see everything else.

C.S. Lewis. NASA launched a spacecraft yesterday that will get seven times closer to the Sun than previous spacecraft.

One NASA scientist called it a mission to, quote, touch the Sun.

The Parker Space Probe will cover 96% of the 93 million miles between us and our closest star.

It will make 24 close approaches to the sun over the next seven years.

We're obviously interested in the sun since life on our planet depends on it, but frankly,

our sun is nothing special in the larger universe.

While it would take one million Earths to fill it, the sun is just average compared

to other stars in our galaxy.

Betelgeus, for instance, is about 700 times bigger and about 14,000

times brighter. In total, scientists estimate that there are 1 billion trillion stars in the

known universe. And God gives to all of them their names. Psalm 147, verse 4. Psalm 191 says, the heavens declare the glory of God and the sky above

proclaims his handiwork. How is this declaration in the heavens relevant to the hard choices we must

make on earth? It's easy to obey God when we understand why we should. The test of faith comes

when we're called to step beyond what we understand why we should. The test of faith comes when we're called a step

beyond what we understand or even want to be true. If you're like most of us, you're facing such

a step today. God's asking you to do something or stop doing something, to forgive someone,

or to seek forgiveness, to stand courageously for his word and will in a skeptical culture,

but it's hard.

If it were easy, you would already have done what he asks.

Today's Daily article was born in a statement I read yesterday in my utmost for his highest.

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