09/03/2026
Consider this for a moment.
The closest star to us is our own Sun — a mere 93 million miles away. Close enough that its light reaches us in about eight minutes.
But leave our solar system, and the very next star you'd meet — Proxima Centauri — is 4.25 light-years away. That number sounds small. It isn't. Translated into miles, 4.25 light-years is roughly 25 trillion miles. Our fastest spacecraft would need tens of thousands of years just to get there.
And Proxima Centauri is our neighbor. The nearest one.
Now multiply that unimaginable distance outward in every direction, and you begin to approach what scientists estimate: roughly 200 sextillion stars in the observable universe. Two hundred billion trillion. A number so large that if you tried to count them one per second, you'd still be counting long after the sun itself burned out, according to scientists (you'd be counting for 6.34 quadrillion years).
Two hundred sextillion stars. And that's only the part of creation we can see.
If God flung that much into existence with a word (Gen. 1:16) — and holds every single one of those stars in place, knowing each by name (Psalm 147:4) — what does that tell us about the One who also knows us by name?
Do you know Him?
"At the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father." Phil. 2:10-11
