I grew up in a place without a lot of light pollution. At night on the back country roads, the stars were bright enough, even without the moon, that you could see the fields and hills as you drove past. I was occasionally tempted to try turning my headlights off to get the full effect. I don’t recommend that.

On a clear night, the human eye can detect about 6,000 stars, a tiny fraction of what’s out there. Astronomers estimate there to be around 200 billion trillion (or 200 sextillion) stars like our sun in the observable universe. There are over 100 billion in our galaxy alone. And who knows how many are beyond what we can observe?

God knows. He created all of them. There is a buried reference to this in Genesis (1:16) that says God created two great lights, the sun and the moon, “as well as the stars.”

There are more stars out there in the vastness of space than we can count, or even see. There are more stars than there are grains of sand on our planet. Yet, all this creation power is one tiny side note in the creation story. Because He created so much more!

“When I observe your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you set in place, what is a human being that you remember him, a son of man that you look after him?” (Psalms‬ ‭8‬:‭3‬-‭4‬, ‭CSB‬‬)

God created all those unknowable stars, but He also created every molecule that exists. He created everything that molecules are made of and whatever is in the spaces between them. He created the hairs on my head and the skin cells of my body that flake off and become dust.

God created every wondrous thing, most of which I will never know about.

The most incredible part of all of this is that He considers people to be His masterpiece. The crown jewel of His creation. He created us in His image. He loves us and knows us. Each of us.

Amidst all of the vastness of His creation, He knows who I am. And He wants to have a relationship with me. He wants to hear about my day. He wants me to seek Him and share with Him and listen to Him and sing to Him. What an incredible thing! The God and Creator of the universe knows and cares about me.

Dear God, I am amazed that you consider me at all. I am insignificant in the face of all you have created. And yet you value me so highly that you provided a way for me to spend eternity with you through Jesus’s sacrifice. I praise you today for who you are, for all you have done, and for this great promise of yours: to be with me to the ends of the earth. I gratefully and humbly accept your truth.