God’s Glory - Part 1
Bible Verses
"The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands.
Day after day they pour forth speech; night after night they reveal knowledge.”
Psalm 19:1-2 NIV
"He determines the number of the stars; he gives to all of them their names. Great is our Lord, and abundant in power; his understanding is beyond measure."
Psalm 147:4-5
"To whom then will you compare me, that I should be like him? says the Holy One. Lift up your eyes on high and see: who created these? He who brings out their host by number, calling them all by name; by the greatness of his might and because he is strong in power, not one is missing."
Isaiah 40:25-26
"As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts." Isaiah 55:9
“O Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! You have set your glory above the heavens. When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, what is man that you are mindful of him, and the son of man that you care for him?”
Psalm 8:1, 3-4 ESV
"For as high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is his love for those who fear him; as far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed our transgressions from us.”
Psalm 103:11-12
“And I heard every creature in heaven and on earth and under the earth and in the sea, and all that is in them, saying, “To him who sits on the throne and to the Lamb be blessing and honor and glory and might forever and ever!””
Revelation 5:13 ESV
Quotes
“What is the glory of God? It is who God is. It is the essence of His nature; the weight of His importance; the radiance of His splendor; the demonstration of His power; the atmosphere of His presence.”
— Rick Warren
"The existence and structure of what we see in the heavens and sky keep on declaring God's glory. God's glory is His perfections revealed. All the stars, the sun, moon, and clouds are His ‘handiwork.’ Just as an artist's painting is his handiwork, even so the heavens and the sky are God's handiwork.”
— BibleRef.com
"Astronomers estimate that the universe could contain up to one septillion stars – that’s a one followed by 24 zeros. (1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000)Our Milky Way alone contains more than 100 billion, including our most well-studied star, the Sun.
— NASA
“Our sun is enormous — more than a million Earths could fit inside of it. But on a stellar scale, it could be swallowed up by about half of all stars observed so far — especially stars like UY Scuti, with a radius around 1,700 times larger than the radius of the sun. To put that in perspective, the volume of almost 5 billion suns could fit inside a sphere the size of UY Scuti.”
— Space.com
"No matter where the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is pointed, what you see are galaxies upon galaxies upon galaxies. Our own galaxy has 100 billion stars. JWST is showing perhaps 2 trillion galaxies in the observable Universe—20 galaxies for every star in the Milky Way. Deep-space images from the JWST don't show fields of stars with a few galaxies in the background. They show fields of galaxies with occasional stars in the foreground.”
— Cosmos Magazine
“The night sky is not meant to remind us how small we are; It is meant to make us remember how vast God’s love is…God himself chose to become human, like one of us. He sacrificed all of his glory, held back all of his power, and died to show us how much we matter to him. The same God who governs the galaxies all across the universe also loves each one of us enough to die for us.”
— Deborah Haarsma (Astrophysicist, President of BioLogos)