By Pastor Robert Jewett

“O LORD, what is man that you regard him, or the son of man that you think of him? Man is like a breath; his days are like a passing shadow,” (Psalm 144:3-4)

Have you ever stopped to ponder how many stars God created? Just within our galaxy, the Milky Way, there are an estimated 300,000,000,000 stars. Yes, 300 billion! But that is only our galaxy.

Scientists have conservatively estimated that there are 200 billion galaxies. So go ahead and do the math.  300 billion, times 200 billion, equals an estimated 60,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 stars that God has created. That’s 60 sextillion stars!

If that is not mind-boggling enough, the sun is an average-sized star and 1 million earths can fit inside the sun.

Stop and meditate on these numbers.  Now consider how big man is when compared to the universe.

It is absolutely humbling to conclude that in size comparison to the universe, man is like a grain of sand. It is even more humbling to know that much like God has named every one of his stars (Isaiah 40:26; Psalm 147:4), he has known us before we were ever formed. His thoughts toward us are more abundant than the sand (Psalm 139:15-18). He has even numbered the hairs on our heads (Matthew 10:30).

May we walk humbly before our God (Micah 6:8)!

Word of Truth Community Church meets Sundays at 10:30 a.m. and Wednesdays at 7 p.m., at 850 E. Parkridge Ave., #110, in Corona.  For more information, visit WordOfTruthCC.com.