Key Verse: Verse 35 – “Thus saith the LORD, which giveth the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, which divideth the sea when the waves thereof roar; The LORD of hosts is his name:”
Key Words: and of the stars for a light by night
John Phillips writes in regard to God's creation of the light by night.
With what astonishing brevity, too, God dismisses the creation of all the stars of space. He employs just five words -"He made the stars also." What a perspective of truth. The Bible takes some fifty chapters to discuss the construction and significance of the Tabernacle. Yet it was only a very temporary sanctuary. Fifty chapters about the Tabernacle, five words about the stars. Truly the Bible looks at things from quite a different perspective from ours. The Bible is a handbook of redemption, that is why. It was nothing for God to create; He had only to speak. But to redeem, He had to suffer. That is the perspective of the Bible.
Had man written the Bible apart from the controlling inspiration of the Spirit of God, it would have been quite a different book. Chapters would have been written about the stars-the billion stars in our galaxy, the one hundred million other galaxies in known space, the postulation that known space is only one billionth of theoretical space. Sir James Jeans tells us there are more stars in space that there are grains of sand on all the seashores of all the world. God dismisses it all as of little account. "He made the stars also." God is more interested in people than He is in planets, more interested in souls than in stars.
All we can say to God's wonderful grace is "to God be the glory."
Dr. Mike Rouse
What to do:
✞ Always remember, God cares for you and about you!
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