Our Amazing God

Have you taken a moment today to stop and look at your surroundings? Take a moment now to stop what you’re doing and look out the nearest window. If you can, step outside to physically experience nature. Take a piece of grass or a leaf and examine it thoroughly. Isn’t the intricate design on the leaf amazing? Look up at the mountains. Drink in their immense size, notice the contrast between their purple shrouds and the snow white caps. Your God created these things.

Now let’s look up into the night sky. There are a vast number of stars in the expanse of the nighttime sky. Each one of those stars is like our sun, which seems so large and bright in our sight. Some of these stars are actually much bigger than our own sun, but are so far away they only appear as tiny pricks in the sky.

Let’s see if we can put two of these stars into perspective, starting with our own sun. If the earth were a golf ball, the sun would be 15 feet in diameter. Imagine trying to find yourself on the golf ball that represents earth.

Now let’s look at the biggest star astronomers have found, Canis Majoris (Latin for Big Dog). This star is so big, we will need to take a trip to Nepal, hike up the tallest point on the surface of the earth (six miles above sea level), and stand on top of Mount Everest. Now while you’re taking a breather, pull out your golf ball and compare it to the size of the mountain you are standing on. Try finding yourself on that golf ball now! Do you feel small and insignificant yet? Canis Majoris is so big, the number of earths that could fit inside is tremendous. It is equal to the number of golf balls it would take to cover the state of Texas in a layer 22 inches deep. Now how do you feel?

Our God, the God of the heavens and the earth, created those stars. He created the Sun, and He created the Big Dog. In Psalm 33:6, the psalmist writes the following:

By the word of the Lord the heavens were made,
And by the breath of His mouth all their host.

God is so powerful, so large, so amazing, that He spoke the stars into existence! Can you wrap your mind around this concept? I would encourage you everyday to stop for a few seconds and look around at God’s creation. Praise Him for His marvelous works with the words of the psalmist:

Let all the earth fear the Lord;
Let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of Him.
Psalm 33:8