How Big Is Your God?

Lutheran Valley Retreat, Divide, Colorado

Shooting the stars with a camera is more difficult than you might think. Although it doesn't look like it, the earth turns quickly, 1,041.6 mph at the equator, in fact. In other words, though one must use a long exposure to shoot the stars, it can't be too long or star trails form.

It took me two nights of shooting the stars to figure this out.

What was more important for me than figuring out the right exposure the night I took this picture was contemplating the vastness of God as I stared into the limitless universe.

"When I look at the night sky and see the work of your fingers-- the moon and the stars you set in place--what are mere mortals that you should think about them, human beings that you should care for them? Yet you made them only a little lower than God and crowned them with glory and honor." Psalm 8:3-5 New Living Translation

If God is God then he's bigger than the universe. The universe owes its existence to God. The planets that rotate around a star, the stars that compose a galaxy, and the galaxies themselves remind us that our God is far beyond our comprehension.

Yet, this God that our brains can't grasp has made himself man. God considers our mortality by becoming mortal for us. This God who called all things into existence is the same God who reveals his love for you and me in the person and work of Jesus.

So, how big is your God?

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Text and Photographs ©Copyright 2012-2014 Douglas P. Brauner.  ARR.