God’s majestic creation shows His eternal glory, demonstrates His love and helps us put our questions into perspective

Picture from ESA/Hubble, shareable through creative commons license: CC BY 4.0

Today I was googling about space for a story I’m writing (and hopefully will finish). Wow, I came across some amazing pictures! I was a bit awe-struck, joyfully thinking of the awesome universe, and the even more awesome God who made it all!

He cares about all these details that most of us don’t see and has revealed a depth of glory everywhere in creation. He enjoys His majesty and power and His artistic design in places that are yet beyond the reach of our human eye or investigation. Some scientists believe the universe may be infinite; yet the LORD is even larger.

When I think about how small I am, and how big He is, and how insignificant really, in comparison to the huge universe around me, it is amazing that He loves me, cares for me and finds the small, petty things I can worry about interesting.

Often times I don’t sufficiently realise how big He is. How amazing and awesome. How powerful. But if I know that, and I know that I am held in His metaphoric hand, then I  can know I am fully safe.

And when I think about the vastness of the universe,, it is amazing to me that of all the things God made He cares so much about little planet earth, and about us, human creatures.

Another thing God’s awesomeness means is that, as human creatures we have no right to lift a finger to Him, ‘forcing’ Him to explain things beyond our comprehension, or question His judgement. If He has made this huge expanse of sky and stars in all its magnitude, does He not have the right to do what He pleases with it? What He does is right. And He is a good and right and just God. His judgements are perfect.

At the same time, God wants to engage in conversation with us and even allows, and maybe even, dare I say it, want us to squibble, complain and question Him! But perhaps when we look at how huge the universe is, and how much huger God is, it is time for us to step back and let God be the judge, and not us (see the end of Job).  When we don’t understand, maybe it’s time to look back at the night sky, remember His awesome magnitude, and remember how loved beyond comprehension we are that even though we are small, He cares! And that, at that present time, is all we need to know. He is enough, He is good, and He is Lord.

That ultimately is what these stars show me, the joy of surrendering to a Good GOD whose ways are higher than mine. The joy of submission instead of fighting, of being consumed, of being part of – or perhaps better said connected to a greater Source of Life, and no longer caring as much about my own life. And that, somehow is the joy of the full life; forgetting about the self and being conjoined with the CREATOR OF THE UNIVERSE.

Psalm 8:1-4 (NIV)

1Lord, our Lord,

how majestic is your name in all the earth!

You have set your glory

in the heavens.

2Through the praise of children and infants

you have established a stronghold against your enemies,

to silence the foe and the avenger.

3When I consider your heavens,

the work of your fingers,

the moon and the stars,

which you have set in place,

4what is mankind that you are mindful of them,

human beings that you care for them?^c