Feeling Small? Look at the Stars!

Check out this verse from Genesis 1:16:

“God made two great lights—the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night. He also made the stars.”  (NIV)

Verses 1 – 15 of Genesis takes us from the beginning of existence up to the point you just read…the third day of creation.  These verses includes the creation of light, darkness, day, night, evening and morning.  The sky and the land were created; dry ground, seas, seed-bearing plants, the sun, the moon, and a partridge in a pear tree.

God creation was intricate and spectacular. It was described in flowing detail with God’s greatness and provision shown.

And yet…notice the end of verse 16:  “He made the stars, also”.

He made the stars also?!?  

Like as in ‘oh yeah, and by the way, let me throw some stars up there for some color.  You know, to give this painting some texture.‘  It’s almost as if he created the stars as an afterthought – just for the pure whimsical artistry of it.

Of course God didn’t haphazardly create anything, and he certainly planned all of his creations.  What I want to point out is that there is great detail given to the creation of everything that relates to you and me from an earthly standpoint – our planet, our living surface, our flora, and our main lights (sun and moon).  Yet the expanse of the universe; greater than we can imagine with galaxies, supernovas, black holes and light years of stars, were just put up there ‘also’ in one sentence.  The universe in its infinite entirety is five words.

How big is God!  What does that tell us about what he thinks about our lives and circumstances?  His main focus was on our planet – our living area – not the great expanse of beauty out in infinity and beyond because what does that matter to him?  We are who matters to the one who created everything!

So when you look at the stars tonight, remember this:  God loves us so much that he focuses all his primary attention on our  ”little” planet instead of the great expanse of the universe.  His love and provision is is so big that he created millions and millions of stars and other spectacular cosmic bodies; just to fill up space, add color and provide us direction.

This is the God we talk to.  This is the God who loves us.  This is the God who knows you.

That truth, you can lean on.

Collin