KING OF THE COSMOS

As you read this, the moon is circling the earth at 2,300 miles per hour. Even at that speed, it will take it nearly a month to make a full rotation. Meanwhile, despite circling the sun at 66,000 miles per hour, the earth will take a whole year to make one orbit. And our sun is just one of 200 million other suns spinning around the Milky Way at 483,000 miles per hour—it will take them 225 million years to do one circuit. And the Milky Way is but one of 100 billion other galaxies shooting through space at over a million miles an hour. The universe is massive!

The hugeness of our universe reflects God’s own awesomeness. It is He who stretched out the stars of heaven, covered the earth with the seas and made the mountains rise (PSALM 104:1-9). “Through everything God made,” Paul says, “[we] can clearly see his invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature” (ROMANS 1:20 NLT).

Paul knew nothing of the universe being 100 billion galaxies large, but think about what he wrote about Jesus: “In him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth” (COLOSSIANS 1:16). All those galaxies were made by and for Jesus, and He holds them all together in His hands (V.17).

This is mind-boggling! The One who walked this earth 2,000 years ago is the same One who keeps the galaxies spinning today. Jesus isn’t just the God of you and me. He’s the King of the cosmos.

Thinking it over . . .

Read Ephesians 4:10, Hebrews 1:2-3 and Revelation 4:11 and spend some time reflecting on Jesus’ glory as the Creator of heaven and earth.