Remembering that light travels 186,000 miles per second, doing that for 150 billion years certainly implies that our universe is BIG!
The Psalmist and King David considered this, and was amazed that God considered the small humans on this speck called earth to be not only significant, but very important.
Here's Psalm, 8:3-4.
'When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers,
the moon and the stars, which you have set in place,
what is mankind that you are mindful of them,
human beings that you care for them?'
We 'people' ask questions about our place in the universe, whether our lives have meaning, purpose, a destiny, a future. If we had no input from God, the conclusion might be pretty dismal, that we have somehow developed self-consciousness, but are only complex chemical organisms with no real significance.
Looking at the universe's size and our size, the billions of stars, planets and other objects of space, we do seem insignificant. We are shocked to hear what God has to say:
'For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life' John 3:16
A revolutionary idea comes to us. We can measure distances in space, even build rockets to send our senses beyond our reach to see and test what is beyond us. However, the Bible tells us that who we are, where we come from, and where we may yet be are unbounded by space and time. We are part of a creation and plan of a higher mind, a greater personality, a God not of our making, but one who is making something of us.
