God measures his universe in the span of his hand. It's far too big for us to do that, so we need to measure it with what we call a light year. This is the difference light travels in one year - 9.4 trillion KM. That means that light travels from the sun to your skin ( a distance of 150,000,000 KM) in just over 8 minutes.
We looked at spectacular images from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, the Hubble Telescope and also from Voyager.
Images above: Top: Seven Sisters or Pleiades. Mentioned three times in the Bible (Job 9:9, 38:31; Amos 5:8). Middle: The Whirlpool Galaxy, 23 million light years from Earth. Bottom: an image from Hubble of the very centre of the Whirlpool Galaxy.
Probably the most stunning image of all for me is called the Pale Blue Dot. This is an image sent back from Voyager as it was about to exit our solar system, 6 billion KM's from Earth. The image is looking back to where it had travelled, past all the planets. The coloured rays are light reflecting of Voyager. In one of those rays you can see a pale blue dot. That's Earth from 6 billion Km's away.
Is this what we look like to God? We really are insignificant in the grand scheme of things. Our planet is a tiny dot in a universe so big that we've only just scrapped the surface.
God sent his son to that little blue dot to die for us. For you and me.
Friedrich Schiller said this once, “the universe is one of God’s thoughts”. Isn't it fantastic to think that so are you.
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