I saw Orion last night from 30,000 feet!
Seemingly just outside my window, The Great Hunter stalked majestically through the night sky. His sword by his side and club in his hand, he continued his eternal quest for prey.
Orion has always been one of my constellations. It is an easily recognizable constant in the southern sky and I always look for it first when I look at the stars. To see it from a different perspective as I flew over California was exciting.
As I considered this beautiful constellation and the other stars in their courses, I was reminded of David’s words in Psalm 8:3-4:
“When I consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers,
The moon and the stars, which You have ordained,
What is man that You are mindful of him,
And the son of man that You visit him?”
I was overwhelmed by the realization that the same God who set Orion and the Pleiades in the night sky directs my steps. Whether I am on a plane at 30,000 feet or walking the streets of Wenatchee, He leads me day-by-day, moment-by-moment. I am never out of His sight, never separated from His love. And neither, my friend, are you.
He has loves you with an everlasting love and holds you always in His hand. As surely as He guides the stars, He guides your life.
So don’t be afraid, do not despair, for “He who made the Pleiades and Orion…the Lord is His name!