In relation to the vast universe, man is just a teeny-weeny speck. Consider these scientific statistics: “The earth’s sun belongs to a galaxy called the Milky Way. Astronomers estimate there are about 100 thousand million stars in the Milky Way alone. Outside that, there are millions upon millions of other galaxies.”
Now let’s translate that into images that the naked eye can see: if all the stars in our sky were only the size of pin head, they still would fill the Philippine Arena to overflowing, more than two billion times.
Mind boggling, isn’t it?
What’s even more incredible is that the God who created those twinklers that surround the immense cosmos loves us! He loves not only the whole humanity, but loves you and me individually. So if we think of ourselves as important, we are—to the Creator of unimaginable galaxies.
John 3:16-17 (NLT) paints this for us beautifully and implicitly: “For this is how God loved the world: He gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life. God sent his Son into the world not to judge the world, but to save the world through him.”
Scientists might think we are astronomically insignificant, but God considers us worthy to be in His loving care. He demonstrated this by coming to Earth to be with us on Christmas!
We may ask, I am just a tiny speck in the bodies of stars up there all over and God wants me to live with him for eternity?
“But to all who believed him and accepted him, he gave the right to become children of God. They are reborn—not with a physical birth resulting from human passion or plan, but a birth that comes from God." (John 1:12-13)
On Christmas, may we all celebrate God’s greatest Gift to tiny specks like us.
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