October 4, 2025 -- Isaiah 40:25-26 -- God, Who Created the Starry Hosts

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To whom then will you compare me,
    that I should be like him? says the Holy One.
26 Lift up your eyes on high and see:
    who created these?
He who brings out their host by number,
    calling them all by name;
by the greatness of his might
    and because he is strong in power,
    not one is missing.
Isaiah 40:25-26 ESV
 
Magazines, who still subscribes to them? There is one I still do, and I love to receive it in my mailbox! It is called “Creation”. It is a science-based, Christian magazine that emphasizes the fact that God created the universe in six, 24-hour days; and on the seventh day He established the Sabbath. A day of rest. A sanctuary in time.
 
While reading my latest edition of Creation, I read these words: “…consider how many stars there are in the universe. Astronomers currently estimate there are at least 200 sextillion starts—that is 2 followed by 23 zeros! Conveyed differently, there are roughly 10,000 stars for each grain of sand on all the beaches of the earth.” Creation, Vol. 47, No. 4 2025. Let that sink in. The incomprehensible number of stars. Elsewhere in the same article it is noted that ours is an ultraminiscule solar system within the Milky Way Galaxy.
 
The implications are amazing.

  • God, Who is greater than all the stars put together, knows each one.

  • God, Who created and sustains the outstretched vastness of our cosmos, knows His people living here on this small planet called earth, orbiting the sun, in our ultraminiscule solar system.

  • God, Who brings out the starry hosts so that not one of them is missing, counts His people as so profoundly precious, that He would not let a single one of His chosen people be lost for eternity. He sent His Son, His beloved Son, to be the sacrifice for our sins. That Son, of Whom it is written, for by Him all things were created (Colossians 1:16) and He is before all things and in Him all things hold together (Colossians 1:17) willingly set aside the privileges of divinity to walk under the very stars He made and do so as a man, suffering, and die, so that we could be saved. Honestly! To whom will you compare our God?!

  • God, Who gives order to the immeasurable universe, invites you to lift your eyes to the starry hosts, not to worship them, instead with the eyes of faith to see beyond them and glorify Him, the One Who made them, the One Who saves you, and the One Who lives in you, guarding you until your salvation is accomplished.

 
Today’s prayer is from the Psalms:
Praise the LORD!
For it is good to sing praises to our God;
for it is pleasant and a song of praise is fitting.
The LORD builds up Jerusalem;
he gathers the outcasts of Israel.
He heals the brokenhearted
and binds up their wounds.
He determines the number of stars;
he gives to all of them their names.
Great is our Lord, and abundant in power;
his understanding his beyond measure.
The LORD lifts up the humble;
he casts the wicked to the ground.
Psalm 147:1-6 ESV
 
Jerusalem is a reference to God’s own people, and it points to the new heavens and the new earth, when we will live in the New Jerusalem, where sin and death will be no more
 
Outcasts—currently believers suffer for their faith
 
https://youtu.be/o-ImfnUqWxg?si=B1JB3-5wbUvDJxeU All Praise to Him
 

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