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"I made the stars, just putting that out there..." - God (paraphrased)


Sometimes, the tiniest phrases are the most profound. Take, for example, Genesis 1:16. Here, God describes His creation of outer space. He speaks specifically about the sun and the moon, which He says are signs for days, years, and seasons (which is literally all you need to answer the common objection "how could days 1-3 have happened if God hadn't created the sun yet?"). But after that, He follows it up with "He made the stars also."

Let's be honest here: The stars are no small thing. They are significantly bigger than our planet, and there are literally billions of them; far more than we can even count. God, by contrast, knows every single one of them by name, and both created and maintains every single one of them. Yet He throws their creation account in there as if it was as trivial a detail as what He had for lunch that day.


This one little statement "He made the stars also" tells us a lot about God. For God to have not only created the stars, yet also brush off their creation, tells us just how glorious God is. Or rather, it tells us how incapable we are of even grasping that glory. If we can't even grasp the creation, what are we to think of its Creator?

Yet, God actually chose to enter this creation! Jesus Christ, who has to humble Himself to even observe the heavens and the Earth (Psalm 113:6) decided to humble Himself even more, becoming a helpless baby boy, born to a young maidservant, taking her carpenter fiancé as His step father. He walked the earth, having very little money, fame, or even respect. When He finally began His ministry, He absorbed the scorn of sinners, dealt with the folly of endless questions, suffered many fickle friends, was betrayed by His disciple, endured a bogus trial, and was finally punished, not for His own sins, but for ours! The God who made those stars did all that for us. Why? So that we could receive an inheritance far greater even than this perishable universe. We can be in His presence! So much depth from a single Bible verse.

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