This is an amazing view of our universe, which puts me even more in awe of our Creator!
The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of His hands.Day after day they pour forth speech; night after night they reveal knowledge.They have no speech, they use no words; no sound is heard from them.Yet their voice goes out into all the earth, their words to the ends of the world. (Psalm 19:1-4)
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Look up.
See all those stars? Even all the stars our most sophisticated telescopes can see don’t even come close to showing us all the stars in our universe.
And yet of all the stars and all the planets, our Earth is perfectly positioned by our Sun. If our Sun was any bigger, we’d get too much radiation and heat. If our Earth was any farther away, we’d be too cold to survive.
God placed Sun, Earth, moon, and stars perfectly.
Look down.
Way down. All the way to the sub-atomic level.
Neutrons, protons, electrons all arranged perfectly. Too many protons or electrons—or too few—and matter wouldn’t hold together properly.
God placed those components of our atoms together perfectly.
Look in.
Right into your heart.
Gifts, talents, passions, insight, personality, temperament. All of those things in a perfect blend to make you.
You are unique. There’s never been anyone like you before, and there never will be another like you in the future.
God placed those attributes together in a perfect mixture to make you. Too much of this, or too little of that, and you wouldn’t be you.
What are you going to do with your you-ness? How about letting your Creator tell you exactly why He made you the way He did:
For YOU are God’s handiwork, perfectly created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for YOU to do. (Ephesians 2:10, with a slight change to personalize it)
God knows what He’s doing. He created the big universe perfectly. He created the sub-atomic universe perfectly. And He also created you perfectly.
But what does that mean? How can we grasp that concept? The prophet Isaiah tried to capture the essence of this when he asked who else but God “has measured the waters in the hollow of His hand, or with the breadth of His hand marked off the heavens?” (Isaiah 40:12).
Hold your hand palm up, fingers tight together to make a “dish” in the palm of your hand. How much water can you hold in that hollow of your hand? I just tried it and I couldn’t even hold ¼-cup of water. Yet Isaiah says that the hollow of God’s hand holds all the water of the earth.
How much is that? According to the US Geological Survey, the total water supply of the world is 326 million cubic miles. A cubic mile is an imaginary cube measuring one mile on each side. A cubic mile of water equals more than one trillion gallons (that‘s a 1 with 12 zeros following it!)—
One cubic mile of water (1 trillion gallons) x 326 million cubic miles = 326 quintillion gallons of water (326 followed by 18 zeros)!!
God holds ALL of this in the hollow of His hand!
Now stretch out your fingers as wide apart as you can. What is the distance from the tip of your thumb to the tip of your pinky finger? The breadth of my hand is about nine inches. Isaiah says that all of the stars in the universe fit into the breadth of God‘s hand.
How many is that? According to the European Space Agency, there are something like 10 trillion stars (a 10 followed by 12 zeros) just in our galaxy, and they estimate there are something like 10 trillion galaxies—
10 trillion stars in our galaxy x 10 trillion galaxies = 10 septillion stars (10 followed by 24 zeros)!!
God holds ALL of these stars in the breadth of His hand!
To say God’s hands are big and powerful is an understatement of astronomical proportions!
You might be thinking, “With hands that big, I’m so insignificant. I’m lost to God’s sight because His hands are so big.” But there is another aspect to God’s hands—they are not only big, but they are loving.
“Behold, I have indelibly imprinted—tattooed a picture of you—on the palm of each of My hands…” (Isaiah 49:16 AMP). God knows you by name—you are tattooed on His loving hands. His hands which are big enough to hold all the water and all the stars are loving enough to hold you!
Wow, what an incredible God! Powerful enough to protect and provide for us, tender enough to love each of us as though we were the only person in the universe to love!
The silent stars are full of speech
This is an amazing view of our universe, which puts me even more in awe of our Creator!
Craig T. Owens 