Once In a Blue Moon

The last time there was a "blue moon" on New Year's Eve was in 1990 and there won't be one again until 1028. (It makes a great New Year's party theme!) According to popular definition—there is an older, more complicated, nineteenth-century one—a blue moon is the second Full Moon to occur in a single calendar month. (It isn't really blue!)The moon was full in 2009 on December 2, and will be again on the 31st. On average, a blue moon occurs about every two and a half years, so the expression "once in a blue moon" means only once in a great while!

Although I find these facts interesting, what really impresses me is the precise orderliness of this universe God created. The occurrence of those blue moons can be predicted to within a few seconds for the next hundred years or so—long enough for most of us to care! Why should He give attention to such exacting details, except that He was preparing us a good place to live! "And God said, 'Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark seasons and days and years." "The moon marks off the seasons, and the sun knows when to go down." (Genesis 1:14; Psalm 104:19) NIV

I am with the Psalmist who says,

When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers,
the moon and the stars, which you have set in place,
what is man that you are mindful of him,
the son of man that you care for him?

You made him a little
lower than the heavenly beings
and crowned him with glory and honor.

You made him ruler over
the works of your hands;
you put everything under his feet:
all flocks and herds,
and the beasts of the field,
the birds of the air,
and the fish of the sea,
all that swim the paths of the seas.

O LORD, our Lord,
how majestic is your name in all the earth!
Psalm 8:3-9

MaryMartha

Scripture taken from the Holy Bible, New International Version®. NIV®. Copyright©1973, 1978, 1984 by International Bible Society. Used by permission of Zondervan. All rights reserved.

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