'When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, what is man that you are mindful of him, and the son of man that you care for him?' (Psalm 8:3-4)
Apparently it's estimated that there are around 400 billion stars in our galaxy alone. Just our galaxy. 400 billion stars.
Estimates also say there are 350,000,000,000 galaxies. If all those galaxies, contain the same amount of stars as our galaxy, then that's...a lot of stars.
Planets, black holes, suns, nebula and more.
The Hubble Telescope has only captured a tiny portion of our universe.
And Earth is just a tiny blue planet among it all.
Have a look at the Pale Blue Dot picture. It says it better than I can.
So, why is the Universe so big? Why are we, as far as we know and as the Bible tells us, the only beings made in God's image in this massive space?
Maybe it was to remind us how big God is (big is putting it mildly).
Maybe it was to remind us how small we are (small is also putting it mildly)
If we ever need to put life into perspective, we can look at the Universe.
It humbles us when we're getting too arrogant.
We can remind ourselves that the One who made this enormous and beautiful Universe is the One who also made us and loves us deeply.
It doesn't matter how small we are. The infinite God knows each of us. And He has a plan for each of us.
That's something to be very, very thankful for.
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