Sometimes I just sit and let my mind race in circles, trying to fathom the concept of God.
I read this book my junior year of high school about the crazy phenomenon that is our universe, and God as its creator. There are some indescribably beautiful, things out there, yet also some extremely terrifying, things. So this book talked about the extreme vastness of the universe, and the fact that the universe is constantly expanding. I had no idea our universe was getting bigger and bigger by the second, and by mapping the expansion of the universe in reverse, we can see the initial "spark" that began the world as we know it.
I guess I never thought about God as a scientist, but God invented science.
When speaking about the constant expansion–and therefore the almost unimaginable size–of the universe, the book spoke of a photo taken from a satellite telescope called the Hubble telescope. The photo is known as Hubble Ultra Deep Field. The book said that this photo showed a zoomed-out view of part of the universe, with specks of star-like orbs of light in the distance. But when you zoom into the photo, the stars turn out to be entire galaxies.
Immediately I knew I must see this photo, and sure enough, at first glance it looks like a photo of stars. But by looking closer, you see that each little fleck of light is an entire galaxy.
(Link to the photo in high resolution.)
Looking at this photo, one sees just how big our world really is. Each “star” out of the hundreds is the size of (or perhaps bigger than) the Milky Way, which is multi-thousand times the size of our Solar System, which could fit roughly around 8,000 objects the size of our Sun, which could fit 1 million Earths.
And the God that we serve holds all of this in His hand.
God is vast. Unfathomable. Therefore, our knowledge of Him can be unending. We can never fully grasp the size of God or know everything about Him. And if we did ever had this kind of knowledge, we would by definition be equal to God. Now, the fact that we will never fully comprehend God can be discouraging and daunting if we feel the need to know everything, which is a selfish way to live if you think about it. But, on another hand, the fact that we can never fully grasp God can also be exciting. Because we can always learn something new about Him. We will never get bored.
As the universe constantly expands, so our possible knowledge of The Lord of the universe expands, showing the vastness of His splendor. God is bigger than the biggest thing we know, the universe, and even our knowledge of that has its limits.
God is the greatest scientist of all time. We constantly learn new things about Him, as He continues to create a universe that harbors entire galaxies, each continuing to blow our small, earthly minds.
And nevertheless, He cares for us as His own children.
EXTRA: If you want to hear something really REALLY cool on this topic, listen to how nature sings praises to our wonderful God.
