How Big Is God?

One of my Year 3 students asked me this week, “How big is God?” What a great question, but where do you start? Well, I started with the universe.

Sometimes it is easy to forget how big God is. We can make the mistake of thinking of God like we think of the time Jesus took on human form and walked among us on earth.

I began by showing the students a YouTube clip that compares the sizes of the biggest stars that have been discovered in our universe. It is a fascinating clip that demonstrates the magnitude of God and his creative power.

The clip shows ‘VY Canis Majoris’, the biggest star ever discovered in our Milky Way. This star is so big, that if it was in place of the Sun in our solar system, its surface would extend past the orbit of Jupiter. It is approximately 1,976,640,000 kilometres in diameter. That’s nearly 2 billion km across.

Our Sun is just one star among hundreds of billions of stars in our Milky Way Galaxy.
If you were to count only the stars in the Milky Way, 1 each second, it would take you 2500 years.

If we could shrink down our Solar System (Sun, Earth and all our orbiting planets) to fit on the palm of our hand, the Milky Way Galaxy, with its 200 – 400 billion stars, would span the width of North America.

God is far bigger than we can ever comprehend. Isaiah 40:25-26 says;

“So who will you compare me with? Who is equal to me?” says the Holy One. “Look up toward the sky. Who created everything you see? The Lord causes the stars to come out at night one by one. He calls out each one of them by name. His power and strength are great. So none of the stars is missing.” (NIRV)

So, how big is God? …….. God is big enough!

Big enough to create not just our world, but an entire universe that is larger than we can ever comprehend.

Big enough to call each of us by name.

Big enough to take care of our smallest needs.

Big enough to hear and answer every prayer.

Is your faith big enough to accept God’s magnitude? Even when your faith is small, God is still big!

God is big enough for each and every one of us!

Chaplain Phil