Stars

Did you know that, if you stood in the Aquarius stellar stream (which is about 2000 light years from Earth) and looked at Earth and if you had extraordinarily good vision), then you could see Jesus being crucified? Light never dies. And all vision comes from light. The light reflected from Earth travels into space for eternity - just as it does with the stars.
I love stars. They're so beautiful. They give me a feeling like nothing else.

When I stand in an open field, lit only by the silvery, ice-cold light of the stars, I feel so small. But so blessed. Here I am, tiny compared to the universe. And the universe is tiny compared to God. The stars were made from the breath of God. Psalms 33:6 "By the word of the Lord the heavens were made, and all the host of them by the breath of His mouth."

Can't you just see it? Have you ever seen your breath condense on a window on a sunny winter day? Thousands of little drops sparkling in the sun. That's how I can imagine it. God with a black canvas stretching for years. Then He leans down and breathes on it...and His breath clings...and hardens...and sparkles with light. Light moving more quickly than it is possible to see, yet taking thousands of years to travel just partway across the known universe.

 And here we are on our little blue-green planet. Tiny just compared to our sun and miniscule in comparison with the universe. And so small compared to our God...I can't even imagine. Yet this unimaginably great God chose to become one of us...to die for us. The King of the universe...the One who holds in the palms of His hands this:

He chose to come here:

  He became the most helpless thing possible - a baby. And He died. His blood as red as the stars He created to shine.

Why would He do that? Why would He give up everything for people worth nothing - for sinful me! Psalms 8:3-4 expresses this question perfectly: "When I consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, the moon and the stars, which You have ordained, what is man that You are mindful of him, and the son of man that You visit him?"

I could study God's Word for a thousand years and still not understand the answer. But I do know one thing: the universe, and us in it, was designed to give God glory. And they do: Psalms 19:1 "The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament shows His handiwork."

All I can say is: To God be the Glory!