God is immense.
God is bigger than you can ever imagine.
Isaiah 40:12 says “Who has measured the waters in the hollow of His hand and marked off the heavens with a span, enclosed the dust of the earth in a measure and weighed the mountains in scales and the hills in a balance?”
Have you ever been to the ocean? Can you picture a God so big that He can measure all of the oceans in His cupped hands?
Look at the mountains that surround our state. Look at just Mount Rainier. Think about God being so big that He can pick up Mount Rainier and put it on a scale. Think about that! That is a BIG God!
Think about the size of the universe. The Milky Way galaxy that we live in on Earth is 100,000 light years long. One light year is 6,000,000,000 miles long, and the galaxy is 100,000 times that!! The closest star to the Earth, the Sun, is 92.96 millions miles away from the Earth. The galaxy closest to us is the Andromeda Galaxy and it is 2,000,000 light years away. The Hubble Telescope estimates that there are 100,000,000,000 galaxies and our technology has not allowed us to see all of what really exists beyond those. Scientists believe that is just the beginning of what galaxies really exist!
Stop and watch this youtube video on the galaxy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVsqCLyoU3o&t=2s
Psalm 104:1-3 says, “Bless the Lord, O my soul! O Lord, my God, You are very great! You are clothed with splendor and majesty, covering Yourself with light as with a garment, stretching out the heavens like a tent. He lays the beams of His chambers on the waters; He makes the clouds His chariot; He rides on the wings of the wind.”
Stop and think about how big God must be to create and control and hold all the stars, moons, planets, comets, all the galaxies, together. He keeps them in their places and always, at all times, is holding them together. Scientists estimate that there are at least 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 stars.
Psalm 147:4 says “He determines the numbers of the stars; He gives to all of them their names”.
Remember, the sun is the closest star to Earth. Earth could fit into the sun 1,300,000, times. And God has placed 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 stars (at least!) in the sky one by one and calls them by name.
Stop and think about that. God brings the stars out one by one. He knows every single star by name.
That is an immense God!
Think about how huge God is! What does that mean to you?
This same huge, immense God is also immanent. He is with you!
In Romans 8:31 Paul asks the question, “If God is for us, who can be against us?”
Answer that question for yourself. How does God’s immensity and immanence matter to you?
Getting to know God in relationship:
How will you talk to God differently and read His word differently because of this attribute?
Written by Wendy Wood, CHCC counselor