Exoplanets
Adapted from the book How Great is Our God by Louie Giglio
Good morning!
Joke of the Day:
Why don’t astronauts ever get hungry after being blasted into space?
Because they just had a big launch!😄
Today’s Scripture is:
“Have you never heard?
Have you never understood?
The Lord is the everlasting God,
the Creator of all the earth.
He never grows weak or weary.
No one can measure the depth of his understanding.”
Isaiah 40:28 (NLT)
The word “exo” means “outside.” So what do you think an exoplanet is? It’s a planet that is outside our solar system! Instead of circling our sun, it circles a different star far, far away.
Scientists discovered the first exoplanets in 1992. Since then, they’ve found thousands more! A powerful space telescope called the Kepler Space Telescope helped discover many of them. It floated far above Earth and carefully watched the stars, looking for tiny changes in light that might mean a planet was passing by.
Even with amazing tools like that, scientists know something important: they will never find everything there is to know about space. The universe is simply too big! The more we learn, the more we realize how much more there is to discover.
And that makes sense, doesn’t it?
A limitless universe was made by a limitless God.
God never gets tired. He never runs out of ideas. He never says, “I’m done learning.” His wisdom has no bottom and no edges. We can’t measure it.
But here’s the best part: just like we can’t measure the size of space, we can’t measure how much God loves you. His love stretches farther than the farthest galaxy and lasts longer than time itself.
So tonight, if you see the stars shining, let them remind you that the great big God who made them is watching over you.
Let’s Pray Together
Lord, thank You for creating a universe that is so big and amazing. When I see the stars, help me remember how powerful and wise You are. And thank You for loving me more than I can measure. Amen.