Wow!

Amos 5:8 "He made the Pleiades and Orion; He turns the shadow of death into morning and makes the day dark as night; He calls for the waters of the sea and pours them out on the face of the earth; The Lord is His name."

Beyond us. That is what God is. He is so far beyond anything that we can even imagine. Just looking at His creation should make us fall on our faces in awe.

A few facts about Pleiades: It is a cluster of seven stars. The constellation is one of the closest to the earth so it is easy to see with the naked eye. It is really composed of 500 to 1000 individual stars which all travel together in the same gravitational field. In the 1700's it was determined that the chances of this happening with this number of stars was 1:500,000. It's size is 20 light years…that is 120 trillion miles. Pretty small when it comes to this thing called space. And what is the name of it's Maker?

And what about Orion? It is another constellation of stars that is recognizable from the earth. The constellation has been known as the hunter. One well known star in the constellation is Betelgeuse. The size of Betelgeuse alone is 250 times the size of our sun. If it were our sun, it's size would encompass all of Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars. That is nothing, really when you think that the largest star found thus far is something called VY Canis Majoris. It is 2100 times the size of our sun. And who is the Maker?

Not only that but He has made this thing we call days. He takes darkness and turns it into light and He takes light and turns it into darkness. As you think about this whole concept of time, it also a part of creation. It really dictates all of our existence…and what do we call the One who created this?

Then look at this. Before people could figure out how we got rain, the Bible talked about it. The Bible describes this thing called condensation. "He calls for the waters of the sea and pours them out on the face of the earth." This is the rain cycle…and whose brainchild was this?

"The Lord is His name." Jehovah…the Existing One. The One who never had a beginning and will never have an end. The Eternal One. He is the One who created the stars and days and time and the rain cycle. "The heavens declare the glory of God and the firmament shows His handiwork. Day after day utters speech, and night unto night reveals knowledge." Ps 19:1,2

And who are we? No one, really. We are one speck on this planet that we call home. And this planet is just one speck in all of God's created space. Yet we are the objects of His love. We are the ones He made in His image. We are the ones He sent His Son to die for. We are the ones He wants to have a relationship with and who He talks to.

God, I am nothing, You are everything, but You want to make me something. Wow!