The Lord is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. (Isaiah 40: 26)

It is impossible for us with our feeble minds to truly understand and comprehend the greatness of God. But, if we look around us at His creation, we can see some of God’s greatness, such as the natural wonders, lakes, streams, and mountains. God created this earth and everything in it, not only the natural wonders but all the complex living creatures He created. As if this world isn’t marvelous enough, God didn’t stop there. Genesis tells us thousands of years ago that God hung the sun, moon, and stars in place. God created the universe. How big is the universe? Well, how big is our God?

The sun is 865,000 miles in diameter. That’s 109 times bigger than the earth’s diameter. The Earth seems big to us, but 1321.3 of our planet would fit inside Jupiter. Jupiter is huge, but God made even larger planets. The planet dubbed HAT-P-1, is 450 light-years from Earth. It’s twice the size of Jupiter. Our earth would fit into HAT-P-1 over 2500 times. How awesome is God, that he could create all this and still care about you and me? Care enough to send his son to die for us. 

The universe is so large that it can not be measured in miles so we measure it in light years. A light year is how far the light will travel in a year. Light travels at 186,000 miles a second. That’s over 670 million miles per hour. Multiply 186,000 miles a second, times 60 seconds a minute, times 60 minutes an hour, times 24 hours a day, times 7 days a week, and times 52 weeks in a year and you get 5,878,499,817,000 miles. A light year is nearly 6 trillion miles. 

The sun is 93,000,000 miles from Earth but it only takes sunshine eight minutes to travel to Earth. The Milky Way is 25,000 light-years away. But yet it is so large that we can see it from the earth. The God that made the Milky Way cares about you and me. He cares about even the little daily things in our lives.

The observable universe is estimated to be 93 billion light-years across. How much further than that does it go? Astronomers may guess, but only God knows! God created the universe, therefore it cannot contain Him. He is larger than it.

Some time back, I was looking at pictures from the Hubble telescope. They had trained the telescope on one of the blankest, barest, emptiest, spots in the universe and let it draw in the images for ten days. The photos that resulted were full of planets and universes. It was at this point, that it dawned on me that at least in my little human mind the universe is limitless. That’s how big God is! He is limitless. His power, mercy, goodness, grace, and love are unlimited. Think about that. There is no limit to His love for us!