Let's pray. Father in heaven, we need your help now to make plain the greatest, the greatest

news in the world. This text in Jeremiah 32 is inexpressibly glorious and that's the

way you are and I ask for help now to both speak it with truthfulness and an appropriate

affection and that you would give good ears to hear and hearts to receive. I pray this

in Jesus name, amen. So in yesterday's New York Times, there was an article about the web

space telescope and a particular picture that it was taken, some of you saw it, perhaps

the web telescope launched two and a half years ago on Christmas day and it's now a million

miles away from the earth, it's in orbit around the sun, it'll finish, it's orbit in a

couple of decades and this picture had in it a vast stretch of galaxies and down in the

middle right hand part was a perfectly formed question mark made up of hundreds of thousands

of miles of dust clouds they set and now this this article I'm reading it in the car driving

down yesterday on my phone and I was so thankful for this article because it just launched me into

real affection for the fact that I get to talk to you about the creator of the universe and his

purpose for faith Baptist fellowship and and Dana Olson's life and and Christus and and Anna's

and Mary's and Betsy's life for the next season I get to talk about this now what really fired me

up was not not that we're going to talk about astronomy and not that I learned anything new about

the universe in fact it was as I came to the end of the article I was so profoundly disappointed and

sad and given a sense of urgency about what we're doing in this room right now so I'm going to

read you the last paragraph and you'll see why it had that effect I think it's written by Dennis

I don't know how to pronounce this last name over by over B quote we've barely begun to know

anything that's why we build telescopes once the web has completed its rounds of investigations in

two decades from now we might know a bit more about this bowl of stars but we still won't know why we

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