Stars and Electrons

March 15, 2003

I have always been amazed at how God made the stars, which are so unimaginably huge to us, and yet He still manages to care for me enough to come to earth and die for me and raise from the dead, so that I can live with Him forever. I was further amazed when I learned about atoms in chemistry class in college. Our cells have lots and lots of atoms. But even the atoms, which are unimaginably small, are gigantic compared to the neutrons and electrons inside them! And to think that the same God who made the stars made these itty-bitty things!

Titanic balls of fire
Placed by God in the heavens
Mere specks in His eyes
They glow in the sky
Far larger than I can imagine

How is it that the God who is so much larger than the stars
Can care for me -
One who is a mere speck
Compared to the stars?

The stars orbit in an endless round
In their clusters and galaxies they orbit
And the God who made these galaxies
Huge beyond my imagination
Cared enough to send His only Son
To die for me!

Tiny balls of matter
Placed by God in the atoms
So much smaller than specks in our eyes
So much tinier than we could begin to imagine

Electrons orbit in an endless round
In large numbers they orbit
Around the nucleus of the atom
The atom - like a galaxy to the electron
And how many atoms are in a single cell?
Countless millions of atoms in a single grain of sand!

How is it that the God who created the unimaginably humongous galaxies
Also created the unimaginably tiny electrons?

What a wonder
That such an amazing Creator God
Could care enough
To send His only Son
To die on a cross for me!