{"id":17,"date":"2008-08-01T22:17:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-01T22:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/psolis.com\/dreamscapes\/?p=17"},"modified":"2010-07-31T07:19:11","modified_gmt":"2010-07-31T07:19:11","slug":"grandeur-of-our-universe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/psolis.com\/dreamscapes\/2008\/08\/grandeur-of-our-universe\/","title":{"rendered":"Grandeur of our Universe"},"content":{"rendered":"

I just got a glimpse of the real grandeur of the universe and the immensity of God. How large & magnificent can the Creator be to have made the universe.<\/p>\n

A few weeks back my son & I were walking around the neighborhood & my son saw a red ant hill. He runs over to it, takes a stick & goes to destroy the ant hill. I stop him and tell him to leave the ants alone. I remember imaging an ant looking up and being overwhelmed by the shear size of my son in relationship to theirs. <\/p>\n

\"Earth<\/a>So today I got a feeling of what the ants might have visualized. <\/p>\n

The perspective of our place on earth. I am one person in, a small town in the state of Florida, in the best country on earth. Now imagine the U.S.A. in relationship to the mass of the earth. Then the relationship of the earth to the sun (that’s the earth on the lower right side), the third rock from the Sun. Then just picture our solar system compared to our galaxy and the size of our galaxy compared with the universe. <\/p>\n

Yes, I know this is actually old news – and yes any grade school science student knows that. The science is elementary, so I won’t go there – What I want to discuss is something bigger, more magnificent – so just hang on & ride it out with me…<\/p>\n

Imagine the grandeur of a Creator that can conceive all of this!<\/p>\n

Our Earth is really tiny compared to the sun. This is enough to leave me in awe! but I want you to know that our sun is only an ordinary star, classified as a dwarf star. There are more than 100 million such stars in our galaxy. <\/p>\n

If our Sun is a dwarf then imagine the size of a Giant star! A typical one is about the size of the Earth’s orbit around the Sun. Now picture a star even larger! so large that “Giant” is not enough to describe it. The scientists had to come up with a name like “SuperGiant.” <\/p>\n

\"Beatelgeuse<\/a>A star that fits this description is Betelgeuse (More…) <\/a><\/p>\n

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Betelgeuse is the tenth brightest star in the sky. It sits at the base of Orion\u2019s right arm. <\/p>\n

Orange Betelgeuse is cooler than our Sun, but its diameter is 700 times that of our Sun.<\/p>\n

This “superGiant” can outshine the sun by over a million times. These are very massive stars seen just before they supernova.<\/p>\n

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So in comparison, imagine the size of a creator that can conceive Betelgeuse as only one in a million NO billions of stars. <\/p>\n

That little white spec on the lower left side, under Antares, is our sun. WOW I feel so small!<\/p>\n

That is nothing! Check out the next step and the greatness of our Creator.<\/p>\n

Yes Betelgeuse is thousands of times larger then our sun. So large that our Sun is barely a spec next to Betelgeuse, but imagine even bigger stars! <\/p>\n

How about a star so large that ‘Super’ is not enough to describe it. It is classified as a ‘HyperGiant.’ <\/p>\n

\"VY<\/a>Imagine a star that is 2100 times larger then our Sun. VY Canis Majoris (More…)<\/a> is such a star.<\/p>\n

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VY Canis Majoris is called a HyperGiant because of its very high luminosity. <\/p>\n

“A typical red supergiant phase lasts about 500,000 years. A massive star becomes a red supergiant near the end of its life, when it exhausts the hydrogen fuel at its core. As the core contracts under gravity, the outer layers expand, the star gets 100 times larger, and it begins to lose mass at a higher rate. <\/p>\n

VY Canis Majoris is the largest known star and also one of the most luminous known. It is located about 5,000 light-years from Earth in a constellation called Canis Major. VY Canis Majoris is only one of the HyperGiants that makes up this constellation known as one of the dogs following Orion the hunter.<\/p>\n

VY Canis Majoris has probably already shed about half of its mass, and it will eventually explode as a supernova.” – hubblesite.com<\/a><\/p>\n

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This really leaves me in awe! <\/p>\n

Our sun is but a pixel next to this giant. Can you imagine the vastness of the universe where this HyperGiant exists only as one piece of a giant constellation!?<\/p>\n

Now imagine a creator that can conceive of all of this. <\/p>\n

He is so grand that we as humans cannot even fathom this greatness. He is all, sees all and is omnipresent, even with us.<\/p>\n

So grand that anything we conceive as a ‘BIG’ concern, issue or problem is minuscule compared to the greatness of God. By this I mean that anything and everything is do-able for God! Nothing is a ‘big problem’ for him and the vastness of His compassion can help us with our BIGGEST problem.<\/p>\n

Think of this the next time that you are dealing with the ‘problems’ of life:
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“Don’t tell God how big your problems are…tell your problems how big God is.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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