Wednesday, October 22, 2008

How BIG is God?













To get a better understanding of just how big God is let’s take a look at the Universe He created and put it into a perspective that we can understand.

If we scaled our planetary size down to 1/100,000,000 size… or one hundred million times smaller that it is, that would make our sun about the size of a large pumpkin about 4.5 feet in diameter. The Earth would be the size of a cherry and rotate around this giant pumpkin Sun at a little less than one mile. The farthest planet (or now non-planet) in our Solar System, Pluto would be about the size of a grain of rice, and orbit at about 36 1/2 miles away from the Sun.
Now get this… to reach the nearest star in our Solar System (Proxima Centauri) you would have to travel 24,800 miles. To reach the edge of our Solar System… ready… you would have to travel 288 billion miles (in 1/100,000,000 scale) the actual distance is 28,800,000,000,000 (over 28 trillion miles)

The actual Diameter of the Milky Way is estimated to be 130 million light years. A light year is equal to six trillion miles, so that would be 780,000,000,000,000 or 780 trillion miles. There are suns in our solar system (the Milky Way) that in comparison to our pumpkin sized sun would cover a football field…

Now IS THAT BIG or what!

If you were to try and sequentially count the stars in the universe it would take you about 2500 years. There are estimated to be 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 ten-sextillion stars of various sizes in the known universe and God made and named each and every one…

Psalm 147:4 He determines the number of the stars and calls them each by name.

Isaiah 40:26 Lift your eyes and look to the heavens: Who created all these? He who brings out the starry host one by one, and calls them each by name. Because of his great power and mighty strength, not one of them is missing.

Isaiah 45:12 It is I who made the earth and created mankind upon it. My own hands stretched out the heavens; I marshaled their starry hosts.

If He created all of what we see in the Universe by stretching out His hands then; then how much bigger is the rest of Him?

And just think, this God who made all of this vastness wants a relationship with you... a microbe living on a cherry size planet located less than a mile from the giant pumpkin that is 288 billion miles inside of one of the smaller of the solar systems that He created.

And He knows us so well and is so much aware of each of us that He knows the number of the hairs on each of our heads…

Matthew 10:30 And even the very hairs of your head are all numbered.

… the sad part is most of humanity doesn’t even recognize Him for who He is, and most Christians leave him waiting day after day never showing up for the standing date that He has offered to each of us. The creator of the Universe wants a personal relationship with you, to spend time with you…

Do you leave Him waiting in the car in front of your house for your date?

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