He Made the Stars Also

In the Old Testament Book of Genesis exists a small five word sentence which has to be the classic understatement among the entire 66 books of scripture.

… “He made the stars also.”

Tonight as I visited my social media page I came across a 4 minute video depicting the largest field of stars ever photographed by the Hubble Telescope. 100 billion stars; so massive a field of celestial bodies that the picture itself required over 4 GB of storage space.

As the film footage plays out, each successive square inch of the picture is brought into focus, and given the “zoom treatment.” The various layers of stars representing nearer and increasingly further distances create a matted effect, and the photographic affect of billions upon billions of stars provides the illusion of a virtual wall.

… “He made the stars also.”

(With the emphasis on “He.”)

We live in an amazing universe. Our moon, the only other heavenly body man has ever visited, lies a quarter million miles from the good earth. Our sun, the nearest star, is 93 million miles away. The speed of light is just over 186,000 miles a second, and the light leaving our sun takes a full 8 minutes to reach our planet. The Milky Way Galaxy, of which our solar system is a pin prick, is one of thousands of similar galaxies. Some of the stars in this great photographic field, of which I have previously alluded, lie thousands of light years away. Many of these stars have long since burned out, though we still perceive them hanging in the night sky; the result of the light they emitted eons ago still traveling through space and only now reaching our retinas. 

In 1972 Pioneer 10, an unmanned photographic spacecraft was launched towards interstellar space, i.e., on a trajectory which would take it out of our solar system. In 2003 all communication with Pioneer 10 was lost. Only recently, after a flight of several decades, this marvelous machine exited our solar system, and became the first man-made object to enter interstellar space. 

On its current trajectory the spacecraft would require 68 light years, or 2 million years given its actual speed, to reach the heart of our Milky Way Galaxy!

In an age in when the stars (i.e., horoscopes) are sometimes afforded more attention than the One who created them, (as if they had anything to do with our destiny) we are left with these astounding inanimate witnesses to the creative handiwork of a supernatural being.

HE

(It was) He (who) made the stars also.

By William McDonald, PhD. Excerpt from "(Mc)Donald's Daily Diary" Vol. 19, Copyright pending

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