It Matters to Him: A Devotional From 1 Peter 5:7

Hello ladies and gentlemen, my name is Justin Peters. I hope that you and your family are doing well today, and I want to thank you for watching this video. This is the third installment of the devotional series that I have begun just some short devotionals that I'll do a couple of times a week or so and I thought today we would kind of pick up where we left off.

With the last one if you watched my previous devotional video you might remember that we talked about how in Christ all things hold together and he upholds all things by the word of his power. And so there is a never a time when God is not working.

He is Constantly working everything exists by the constant exertion of his power. And if God were to ever stop working then you and I and everything in the universe Would instantly vaporize we would vanish and cease to exist.

So there's never a time when God is not working. So that's what we talked about last time. I want to pick up where we left off and Start by saying this ever since I was a little boy. I've always had a Real interest in space.

Space has just always fascinated me the stars the planets. I even as I'm talking right now, I can see in my mind's eye this this book I had as a kid that talked about the Apollo missions and I can even see right now the The diagrams and the pictures and I was just fascinated with the flames coming out of the Engines and all that and the orbit it made the trajectory it made to the moon.

And so I've always always kind of had a an interest in space and astronomy. I did a little bit of research and You may have heard some of these numbers before but you'll see where I'm going in just a minute.

The mass of the earth the mass of this planet on which you and I are now Sitting is 6 .6 sextillion tons 6 .6 sextillion tons. Do you know how much that is? I? Don't either. I don't have the slightest idea I don't even know how many zeros that is that that is a meaningless number to me as massive as the earth is.

You could fit 1 .3 million earths in Inside of our Sun 1 .3 million earths inside the Sun and our Sun is just an average sized star there are stars out there that are far far larger than our Sun and These numbers are hard to quantify.

We really don't have a firm grasp on these numbers. In fact, I talked with dr Jason Lyle about this just a couple weeks ago, but There is a star out there named UI Scuddy and as best we know This is the largest star.

It's not the most massive star for its mass. But in its size as best we know, this is the largest star and the estimates are that you could fit anywhere from 5 billion to 9 billion with a B Suns Inside this one star called UI Scuddy 1 .3 million earths inside the Sun and you could fit anywhere from 5 to 9 billion Suns inside UI Scuddy that the human mind cannot comprehend such numbers and that is just one star in our Milky Way galaxy, which has At least a hundred billion some estimates up to 400 billion Stars, I mean we don't even know we don't even have a grasp of how many stars there are in the Milky Way galaxy.

There's a lot of them anywhere from a hundred to four hundred billion. Let's split the difference. Let's say 200 Billion stars in the Milky Way galaxy. That's just one galaxy. There are anywhere from 200 billion to some estimates up to 2 trillion Galaxies in the universe and that's just a guess the human mind cannot comprehend The vastness of space that the enormity of it it my circuit breakers trip my circuit breakers trip.

The Vastness of Creation and Human Limits

Why do I say all this I say all that to get to this point? First Peter chapter 5 verses 6 through 7 says this Therefore humble yourself under the mighty hand of God so that he may exalt you at the proper time Casting all of your anxiety upon him for he cares for you.

For he cares for you. Do you know how that phrase in the Greek? Literally reads The best rendering of that the most literal rendering of that phrase in the Greek for he cares for you is basically this.

It matters to him about you it matters to him about You the one who spoke all of the universe into existence this incomprehensible enormity. It matters to him about you. Whatever it is dear one that you are going through right now.

Whatever trial you may be facing If you are in Christ if you know Jesus as Savior and Lord you have been born again and adopted into the family of God Through the merits and the work of Christ. It matters to him about you Selah.

I Hope that this has encouraged you dear ones. Thank you very much for watching until our next time together. May the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ the love of God and the fellowship of his Holy Spirit.

Be with you all.