"He Made The Stars Also” (Genesis 1:16)

“He Made The Stars Also” Genesis 1:16.
Compiled from various sources

As children we look up into the night sky full of stars and “wonder what they are.” We are told by our parents that they are stars and God made them. Then some TV show comes along denying that God made the stars or some teacher instructs us that they came from some Big Bang and suddenly our faith is shaken! I want to reaffirm what secular, humanistic, evolutionary teachers want to steal from you -- Our Father made the stars. Does that seem childish, uninformed, or out right backwards to you? If so, this message is for you.

What are stars anyway? A star is a “massive, luminous ball of plasma that is held together by gravity.” The nearest star to Earth is the Sun, which is the source of most of the energy on Earth. The Sun “rules” the day and the moon “rules” the night. Our Sun is large. The Sun has a diameter of about 1,392,000 kilometers (865,000 mi) (about 109 Earths). If the sun were a bowling ball, then the earth would be a poppy seed. The Sun, if it where hollow, would hold a million earths. The Sun accounts for about 99.86% of the Solar System's mass. But in cosmic terms our Sun is by no means a giant. Other stars dwarf our Sun in size!

Stars are not spread uniformly across the universe, but are normally grouped into galaxies along with interstellar gas and dust. On a clear, moonless night about 3,000 stars are visible with the unaided eye. A small telescope will increase the number to around 100,000 stars. But this is just the beginning! The stars we can easily see are all in our corner of the Milky Way Galaxy. The entire galaxy numbers about 100 billion stars. And beyond the Milky Way are other galaxies with many shapes and sizes. Around 100 billion such galaxies are known to exist. Taking the Milky Way as an average galaxy, the total number of known stars is thus (100 billion)2=(1011)2=1022. These estimated stars number 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, when we write this number out. This figure would be pronounced as “ten billion trillion” stars. Suppose these stars were divided up among the world's total population of 6 billion people. Then each person on Earth would receive more than 1 trillion stars!(internet source)

Yet all these stars may be only one page in God's catalog of the heavens. New instruments continue to probe deeper into space, with no end in sight. What an excellent way for the Creator to show his glory! Whatever the total number of stars He has created, God “counts the number of the stars; He calls them all by name” (Psalms 147:4).

“The heavens declare the glory of the Lord”(Psalm 19:1). The purpose of the creation was and is to declare the glory of the Lord. We serve a mighty God! C.S. Lewis wrote, “If the solar system was brought about by accidental collision, then the appearance of organic life on this planet was an accident too and the whole evolution of Man was an accident too. If so, then all our present thought are accidents -- the accidental movement of atoms. And this holds for the thoughts of the materialists and astronomers as well as for anyone else’s. But if their thoughts are merely accidental by products, why should we believe them to be true? I see no reason for believing that one accident should be able to give me a correct account of all the other accidents.”

The Creator loves you and wants to be known by His creation. Equal to His great power and love is His holiness. He sent Jesus Christ to die on the cross and to be raised again to save those who are lost. Trust Christ today and come to the saving knowledge of the One who made the stars.