If we’re so small, why is the universe so big?

So, as I was looking up at the stars last night, a thought came to me.

We find it hard to believe that God made the whole universe for us humans. The huge amount of space when our corner of the universe takes up – like – a speck of dust. Why is there such vastness out there?

the universe and our relative size

 

All we get to do is stare at it through the findings of Pioneer, Voyager 1 & 2 or New Horizons and imagine and analyse it through Hubble’s brainchild. Even our trip to the moon was infinitesimal comparatively. The final frontier is so hard to fathom that when we stop to think about it, we go a little insane.

I doubt I’m the only one who would day-dream longingly of taking part in a mission aboard the NCC-1701 or stowaway on the Millennium Falcon. Personally, my heart was captured initially by Star Wars but deeply entrenched by Asimov and his Foundation Series. To top it off, I would spend my summers on a 10 acre Island on Lady Evelyn Lake in northern Ontario and loved floating around in the water at night mesmerized by a sky without light pollution and trying to fathom the distance and space of what I could see. Knowing that everything I could see was still only inside our galaxy.

We will forever be baffled by the size and complexity of the universe.

What if our eternity spent with God gives us the ability to explore all that creation? If we are indeed no longer bound by human speed and time, we could get wherever we wanted in a matter of moments (are moments measurable in infinite time?).

This sounds amazing and even more compelling towards a life eternal. We can see the wonders of the universe and continually stand in awe of its awesome creator.

It is as if God has been building this playground for his kids (us) since the beginning of time anticipating the moment he can truly pull the covers off it for his children to go play in. We’re stuck inside staring out the window seeing only small elements of it excited to see what it will really be like. As if God is saying “Hold on kids, just a little while longer playing in your little restricted space, and then you’ll be able to play outside for the rest of time”.

Our God is an awesome God.