Great is Our God
God is bigger than your problem, greater than your need. The evidence of God’s awesome power and wisdom is right over your head. Look into the heavens on a clear night. Scientists say there are about 7000 stars that are visible to the naked eye, although only about 2000 of these can be seen at any one time and place. So even on a clear night, we see only less than one-third of all the stars that are visible to people around the world.
Let’s go a little further. There are far more stars than we can see, somewhere in the neighborhood of 200 billion (that’s a 2 with 11 zeroes behind it) in our own galaxy – the Milky Way galaxy, and that’s just one of millions of galaxies. No man knows just how many stars there are. One estimate puts the number at 3 thousand million billion (that’s a 3 with 16 zeroes behind it)!
The Bible says, “the heavens are the work of God’s hands” (Psalm 102:25). God simply “commanded and they were created”. Imagine that! Just one word from His mouth and over 3 thousand million billion stars came into being! The Bible also declares that God “telleth the number of stars; he calleth them all by their name” (Psalm 147:4). Wow!
Consider this; if the sun were hollow, one million earths could fit inside it. One star named An tares, if hollow, could hold sixty four million of our suns inside it. Our largest known star in the Milky Way, Epsilon, could hold several billion An tares.
Now, how big is your problem? Almighty God who is great, who has great power and infinite wisdom (Psalm 147:5), invites us to approach Him with our burdens (I Peter 5:7, Philippians 4:6, Matthew 11:28). I love Psalm 147:3, “He healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds.”
Just remember the next time you feel overwhelmed by the size of your problems – God is bigger than the problem, greater than the need.
Pastor Bruce Freeman
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