Welcome to today's encouragement from Our Daily Bread. My name is Mike Whitmer, and I entitled

our reading, In His Hands. William Shatner played Captain Kirk on the television series

Star Trek, but he was unprepared for a real trip into space.

He called his 11-minute suborbital flight, the most profound experience I can imagine.

He stepped out of his rocket and marveled, to see the blue color go right by you, and now you're

staring into blackness.

That's the thing.

You look down and there's the blue down there and the black up there.

He added, The beauty of that color, and it's so thin, and you're through it in an instant.

Our planet is a blue dot, surrounded by utter darkness. It's unsettling. Shatner said that

flying from blue sky into blackness was like flying into death. In an instant, you go,

whoa, that's death. That's what I saw. It was so moving to me. This experience, it's something

unbelievable. Shatner's shattering flight puts life in perspective. We're small objects in the

universe, yet we're loved by the one who created light and separated

it from the darkness.

Our father knows where the darkness resides in the path to its dwelling.

He laid the earth's foundation while the morning stars sang together, and all the angels

shouted for joy.

Let's trust our small lives to the God who holds the whole universe in his hands.

Today's Our Daily Bread devotional scripture reading is from Job chapter 38, verses 4 through 21.

Where were you when I laid the earth's foundation?

Tell me, if you understand.

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