The Night Sky
Earlier this week, the Melbourne night sky lit up by a meteor shower. Many people captured the amazing sight. It even made it to news stations across the globe. People have their best guesses about what was burning up in our atmosphere.
The fascination of the night sky has always been an interest to me. And maybe it has interested you. As I shared in my sermon last Sunday, our galaxy is incredibly huge, let alone the rest of the universe. So many wonderful things for us to see, such as stars, nebulas, constellations, galaxies, black holes, comets, planets, and so much more! If you are unfamiliar with nebulas, they are a nursery for new stars. A quick Google search of nebula shows the beauty of space, full of vibrant colours.
Our galaxy, the Milky Way, contains an estimated 100 billion stars (100,000,000,000). Our sun is just one of those stars. What does that all look like? Let’s imagine the sun is a grain of sand 1mm in diameter. What we need is 100 billion grains of sand, we can then throw all the sand in the air and spread it out in the shape of the Milky Way. The first bit, gathering 100 billion grains of sand, is not as hard as it sounds, assuming they are all 1mm in diameter like our Sun, we would need a cube of sand with 4.6-metre sides and height.
King David looked up at the night sky and wrote a psalm of praise to the creator of the universe. He considers all this impressive data and yet holds to a marvellous truth: God pays attention to man, you show concern for him. He is in breathless praise
what is mankind that you are mindful of them,
human beings that you care for them?
God is mindful of us. He knows you, your stresses, your wins, your heartbreak, your joy. How does David know all this? He reads his bible. He knows what Genesis 1:26-31 says. How can we know God is mindful of us? By reading the bible. As we do, we become more aware of the greatness of God and how he loved us so much he sent his Son.
Have a read of John 1:1-18 and reflect on these truths.
Nathan Gray (Next Gen Minister)