If you accept the fact that the Earth is constantly flying through space at 2.84 million miles an hour, and you actually think about that fact, you can only come to (2) possible conclusions:

 

The 1st choice

The Earth, the Sun, the trillions of galaxies and the countless stars all formed themselves…from nothing. Then they set themselves to turning and to burning…somehow. Then finally, they all continually maintain their perfect orbits and their ideal relationships…by sheer luck, or by random chance. A very unlikely scenario.

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- Or -

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The 2nd choice

Someone has to be the Captain of all these flying celestial ships, including the Earth. And that someone would also have to be the very definition of God. Here’s how the Bible described that individual 2000 years ago: “Jesus is the image of the invisible God. For by Him all things were created, both in the heavens and on Earth, visible and invisible. He is before all things, and in Him all things are held together”. And that same Jesus, the God over absolutely everything, desperately longs for an eternal relationship with every single one of us. Founded upon His unconditional love and based upon the fact that we were each specifically created, made, to have that relationship with Him. And we’re literally empty without it. That relationship is available anytime and anywhere by simply inviting Him into your life.

 

There is no 3rd choice.

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Ride the Earth is not about riding bicycles or skateboards, skis or surfboards. Eight billion people are currently riding the Earth right now, as we’re all passengers on the planet Earth.  So what exactly is our planet doing as we ride along?

 

The Earth is spinning on its axis at 1000 miles an hour.  It takes 24 hours to make one rotation at a thousand miles an hour.

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At the same time, the Earth is orbiting the Sun at 66,600 miles an hour.  It takes 365 days to make one circuit around the Sun.

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Our Sun is not the center of the Universe.  Our entire solar system, Sun, moons and planets, we’re all blazing our way across the Milky Way at 543,680 miles an hour.  

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Finally, the Milky Way, our entire galaxy, is soaring at 2.23 million miles an hour toward a structure out there in space called the Great Attractor.

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All told, then, combining each the different trajectories and vectors, we’re traveling at an aggregate speed of 2.84 million miles an hour. 

 

Every second,

of every minute,

of every day. 

 

  If you spend any time considering that reality, you will come to realize that there are only two possible options that can provide us with any sort of explanation as to what’s taking place during our remarkable flight.

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OPTION 1

The first option would be the view that science has taken.  Science can supply the facts – the speeds, the directions, the relationships.  But science has never been able to answer any of the big questions that stand behind any of those facts:

 

Where did it all come from?  Why does it exist?  Who started it?  And of greatest importance to us right now, how does it keep going?  

 

And the only explanation that science has ever been able to fabricate would propose that our extraordinary journey is simply happening…and then it keeps on happening…and then somehow it keeps on happening, and that all of that happening happens to happen…perfectly.  And that word “perfectly” is crucial, because it creates an insurmountable problem for the scientific option, thanks to the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics.  In simple terms, that Law basically states that if you leave things alone, if you take your hands off the wheel, (or, as science would propose, if there were never any hands on the wheel at all), then everything will fall apart, everything will degenerate into chaos.  A quick example:  Mow your lawn today, and then come back in 5 years.  You aren’t going to find a perfectly manicured landscape waiting for you.

 

And there’s yet another illustration that’s frequently used to exemplify this Law, and it’s that of a wrist watch.  If you were to collect all the dozens upon dozens of intricate pieces that go into the making of a watch, then simply toss them out onto a tabletop, you would never expect those parts to spontaneously assemble themselves into a complete and perpetually functioning timepiece.  You would have to wait a long, long time for that to happen, and you’d still be disappointed.  And now extend that concept out from a relatively simple watch to the nearly immeasurable scale of our fully functioning universe.

 

Yet, in response to our situation as passengers on planet Earth, the summation of the scientific stance would still remain that our 2.84 million miles an hour of absolutely predictable perfection is happening by what means then?  By our great good luck.  And we maintain our perpetual orbit around the sun through what process?  By seemingly random coincidence.  And the gravity that thankfully pins it all together?  It’s taking place by sheer happenstance and the most fortunate of circumstances.  And while all of this is admittedly a very positive thing for the eight billion of us who are riding along, yet again, the science of the 2nd Law would completely disprove the very stance that science is taking.  Mow your unattended universe today, then come back in five years.  You aren’t going to find a trillion perfectly manicured galaxies waiting for you.

 

And that would seem like a good place to conclude the first option.  But as part of that conclusion, it also needs to be said that despite all the uncertainties and the lack of answers that science has actually provided, there is one claim that science is absolutely, totally certain about.  And that claim is that God could not be a part of any of it.  Nope, nope, nope, no God allowed.  Better to keep promoting the impossible idea that the watch just assembled itself and keeps running flawlessly than to crack open the door and allow God to peep in.

 

And that brief mentioning of God would introduce the second, and only other view. 

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OPTION 2

This view would hold that, to make any sort of logical, intelligent sense of our situation, and to actually comply with the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics, someone must be the Captain of our ship.  It would propose that someone of immense, immeasurable, perhaps infinite power, and capacity, and wisdom, and care, has assembled and is intentionally operating the wrist watch of our universe.  In other words, someone must be guiding our journey as we ride the Earth, and that someone would be God.

 

And those are the only two choices that are available:  Purely random chance, or God being at the controls of everything.

 

So now, let’s say that you’ve spent some time considering those two dramatically different views, and you find yourself floating in the middle ground between them, undecided. You might have concluded that luck and coincidence don’t really provide an adequate answer, given all the complexities of our situation, and therefore you might be willing to allow that there could possibly be some sort of “higher power”, or “active force”, or “guiding hand”, drifting somewhere out there in the universe.  And maybe that “something” is what’s behind our steering wheel.  

 

But here’s how the Bible described that “higher power” or “guiding hand” almost 2000 years ago.  Long before the ideas of modern science even existed.  

 

“Jesus is the image of the invisible God.  For by Him all things were created, both in the heavens and on Earth, visible and invisible.  He is before all things, and in Him all things are held together.”

-Colossians chapter 1 verses 15-17, in the Bible.

 

That’s who is behind our steering wheel.

 

And these ideas aren’t being provided to present some interesting information or some curious data, there is a real life application that will eventually arise from this discussion.  Because at some point, every single individual will have to make a choice between those two opposing views.  And to build upon the Bible passage above, an additional, critically important idea is that God isn’t just out there spinning worlds and guiding galaxies, it’s that He’s closer to us than our next breath.  In fact, He’s the one providing that next breath.  “In Him all things are held together.”  Right now He’s actively holding everything together.  And that “everything” doesn’t just include a universe of planets and suns, it includes you and me as well.  Because this is the same God who formed us.  The same God who knows every one of the trillions upon trillions of strands of DNA in our bodies, because He made every one of those strands with great intention.  In fact, He knew everything about every single one of us before He brought the Earth, or the stars, into existence.  

And if you ponder that idea with any seriousness, you will come to realize that virtually every moment is a miracle.  Calmly reading this information while you’re screaming through the dark and bitterly cold vacuum of space at 2.84 million miles an hour is a pretty miraculous thing.  And it would also follow that every single second is a gift, straight from the hand of God, because we don’t have much to do with any of it.  You spin any planets lately?  Create any air molecules?  Make fine-tuned adjustments to that gravity over there?  

 

So here’s the final conclusion, and it outlines the underlying motivation that stands behind virtually everything that He’s created.  It’s the ultimate response to all those big questions that science can’t answer: 

Our fantastic journey at 2.84 million miles an hour is driven by, surrounded by, founded completely upon…His love.  Of all things.  His love for you.  His love for me.  His unconditional, eternal, unchanging, willing to sacrifice His life on a cross for every one of us, love.  And based upon that love, you and I were created, given this life, to begin a forever relationship with Him.  That’s what our journey as we ride the Earth is really all about. 

 

And that relationship

can start right here,

and right now. 

He’s known you,

He’s loved you forever. 

He’s the Captain of our ship and the Master of the universe, but He also came down to Earth and was born into our spinning, flying world 2000 years ago.  Don’t you want to get to know Him?

 

That is one of the stories that all of our shirts have been designed to tell.  

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Or, as we said, they can also just be worn as t-shirts.