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Today's talk comes from Pastor Louis Giglio.

Well, in 1609, you may know this already, a Dutch German invented the telescope. His name was Hans Lippershei.

And Hans Lippershei didn't exactly call it a telescope in 1609. In fact, he was a lens crafter.

And when he invented the original telescope, this is what he said about it. He called it a Dutch perspective glass, which he used for, quote, seeing things far away as if they were nearby.

In 1609, same time period, Middle-Bark Germany, if you want all the information, the microscope was invented as well. We're not sure exactly whether that was Hans Lippershei or a father-son combination named Hans and Zacharias.

But either way, Hans was involved in the microscope and in the telescope. And the microscope, I think, is what we often use when we come to study God.

We look down and we think we're going to discover who he is and maybe even decide who he is and come to our own conclusions about who God is and what he's like.

But we're not using a microscope today to investigate God. We're rather using a telescope powered by the Spirit of God, looking through the Word of God and looking into the person of Jesus to take this God, this creator of the universe, this God who is bigger than our wildest dreams.

And to bring him close. Galileo took Lippershei's telescope of 1609 and in 1610, Galileo improved it, discovered the four largest moons of the planet, Jupiter, bringing things far away near so that they can be known and understood.

And that's how we're pursuing God. We're looking at his attributes, discovering what he's revealed as true about himself. And as we look into his attributes, we then are bringing this far away eternal Almighty God.

We're bringing him close so that we can know and understand who he is. And we haven't really given an application point really for how to do that. But in every one of these messages, it's been the same. We've looked at some of the attributes of God.

So I want to encourage you, if you're loving where we're going, do what I was doing in the 1980s. I was taking month-long journeys into the attributes of God.

In fact, I went back and grabbed a journal that I began writing in in 1984. And when you open this guy up, just blank pages, just started on page one. May 15th was the day that I started this particular journey.

And I wrote the wisdom of God. That's one of the attributes of God. The next day, wisdom once again. Stayed on wisdom for a little while because wisdom made it again on to May 17th and May 18th. So a lot of wisdom going on it.

But then as you begin to just go through the pages, God's greatness, that God has exalted, that God has established, that God is the creator and that he is eternal. Like we talked about last week, that he has patience, one of his attributes, his holiness, his holiness again.

Just coming down, his goodness, his goodness again, that he's reigning. We talked about that sovereign. He's beautiful. Just day after day, looking at an attribute of God. You're like, well, where would I start? You can start anywhere you want to start. Pick a Psalm or a passage of Scripture. And as you're reading that Psalm or reading that passage, look for an attribute when you find the attribute, circle the attribute.

Go to your journal, your 30-day journey, right today. The attribute is worthy. Here we were on Friday, June the 8th, worthy. I just was thinking about the text, about who we was, writing out my thoughts to him, always would end up with a prayer. Father, your worth is, and then there goes to prayer.

And then somewhere along the way, made a little marker here, somewhere along the way, I'd worked up a pretty solid list. I don't know if you can get tight on this or not, but I'd worked up a pretty decent list of the attributes of God that I was beginning to focus on and understand about 150 attributes of God.

So if somebody said, tell me about God, what do you love about God? I wouldn't go, well, I love that He's gracious, and I love that He's kind, and I love that He's love. I would just think, wow, that He's light. He's majestic. The maker, the mender, the master, merciful, meticulous, that He's noble.

He's omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient. He's the protector, patient, provider, powerful. He is peace. He's the principal piece. He's the preserver. He's personal. He's our promise. He is pure.

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