Weekly Drawing and Devotional
Tale of Two Pumps
If you have spent much time in an old truck, you have probably had a run-in with a failing fuel pump. It does not matter how strong the engine is; you are not going anywhere without a working pump. Most old-truck pumps last around 100,000 miles. At ten miles per gallon, that is about 10,000 gallons of fuel pushed through before it finally gives out.
That simple thought sent me down a math trail about my own internal fuel pump. With an active childhood and decades of running, swimming, and biking, my heart has pumped and circulated about 2,100 gallons of blood every single day. Over 52 years that adds up to roughly 40 million gallons, enough to fill 111 Olympic-sized swimming pools.
When I sit with that, I am reminded how easy it is to overlook the quiet miracles God built into our bodies. The heart is one of His masterpieces, faithfully pulsing moment after moment, beating 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
Today I pause with my hand on my chest, feeling that steady rhythm. And I thank God for His unmatched craftsmanship, for this hidden gem of a pump that keeps my lifeblood flowing.
Deuteronomy 29:29 (ESV)
“The secret things belong to the Lord our God, but the things that are revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law.”
Can Nothing Even Exist?
ZOOM OUT to the scale of the entire universe, galaxies, stars, planets, black holes, gas clouds, satellites, and debris, and the amount of matter that actually takes up space is astonishingly small. The universe is 99.9999999999999999999999999999% empty, sometimes containing as little as one atom per cubic meter. Empty… but not nothing.
It made me ask the question: Can “nothing” even exist?
If “nothing” means no space, no time, no energy, no laws, and no potential, then “nothing” could never produce anything. It couldn’t spark reactions, form stars, or even be, because “being” is itself a property. True “nothingness” is impossible.
Quantum physics shows that even the vacuum of space is something, full of energy, bending, rippling, and capable of hosting particles. And even if every atom disappeared, spacetime itself would remain. You can’t remove space without removing the entire universe.
All of this reminds me how limited our understanding truly is. Science reveals wonder through observation, but also points us to mysteries too deep for us to grasp. And those mysteries point to a God far beyond our understanding, One who not only shapes stars, but speaks the very fabric of creation into existence. He is the One whose heart drives the very pulse of the universe.
“He stretches out the north over the void
and hangs the earth on nothing.”
Job 26:7 (ESV)
“Behold, these are but the outskirts of his ways,
and how small a whisper do we hear of him!
But the thunder of his power who can understand?”
Job 26:14 (ESV)