The Power of God

Looking up into the night sky we sometimes experience a lonely feeling of floating somewhere in a vast universe.

According to the laws of our universe, nothing comes out of nothing. Unless, of course if God says, “Let there be…” and in an instant something will be there out of nothing.

Under the African skies we find our Big 5. The most visible is the spiral galaxy called the Milky Way, one of 200 thousand million galaxies in the Universe.

The sun and our solar system orbits around the centre of the Milky Way at 250 km/sec (900,000 km/hour) and even at that speed take 240 million years making one orbit.

Another member of the Big 5 is Omega Centauri, a dense cluster of 10 million stars with the luminosity of 800,000 suns.

Number 3 is the bright Southern Pleiades which contains a very “young” cluster of bright blue-white stars. It is 14 light years in diameter.

Number 4 is eta Carinae Nebula with a size of 300 light years across. It is 7500 light years from us and it has a luminosity of 1 million suns.

Number 5 is a huge pocket of very cold, dense gas and dust, enough material to make 3500 suns. Because it has no stars, it is called the Coal Sack.

Everything out there is so huge and vast. Our sun is so big that if we compare it to the size of a tennis ball, our earth would be the size of a small peppercorn. On this small “peppercorn” we are making our mark in this universe.

How much power does God have to create a Universe of this magnitude!

His love however, is even bigger. His eyes are constantly on us. He sent His Son to us in the form of a bondservant (Phil 2:7). We killed Him but God allowed this to have our sins pardoned.

God’s love for us is so great that because of what Jesus did, He highly exalted Him and declared that at the Name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those in heaven, and of those on earth, and of those under the earth (Phil 2:10).

Through Jesus, the power of God is personally experienced when He heals a broken spirit, lifts it up to shine in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation in the 21st century (Phil 2:15).

We are God’s most precious stars.