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On day one of creation week, God had set the Earth in the cold dark vacuum of space (Gn 1:1-2; Job 26:7; Prov 8:27). By day four, God surrounded our planet with the enormous Milky Way Galaxy (100,000 light-years across) that contains at least 200 billion stars which is surrounded by innumerable galaxies numbering into the billions, galaxies whose expanses are tens of thousands of light years, containing millions to trillions of stars.
A light year is how far light travels in a year. Light travels approximately 186,282 miles per second (mps). Since there are 31,536,000 seconds in a year, this means that light will cover a distance of nearly 6 trillion miles in one year! Before the fall of man, light traveled at a far greater rate of speed than today. In other words what Adam could see on day six in outer space from the Garden of Eden was a 48-hour old starry sky. Just what Adam could actually see up in the sky, with the earth possibly being surrounded by a vapor canopy, is unknown. Roughly six thousand years later the law of increasing entropy or the second law of thermodynamics has reduced light to its present speed.
Evolutionist would argue that the natural processes we see today have always been; it is referred to as uniformitarianism. According to them the speed of light has always been at around 186,282 mps, but obviously they reject the creation model and any notion of the dynamics of sin impacting the universe. Entropy is just a fancy word for the byproduct of what we call sin (cf. Gen 3:17-18; Rom 8:20-22). All of creation is in a state of perpetual decay and is running down.
The immensity of the Universe in comparison to this speck of dust we call earth causes some men to see only the insignificance and meaninglessness of life where others see the majesty and awesomeness of God. David was such a man while looking up at the moon and the stars; he was overwhelmed by the idea that God would take thought of him and care for him. Since God calls all the stars by name (Psa 147:4), the truth that God knows the name of every person on this planet is theologically sound; for God is all knowing even though there are only inferences in the Scripture that God knows the names of all the peoples of the earth.
Often we miss the beauty of God’s majesty, His awesome power, knowledge, and wisdom by failing to look up into the night sky because we are too horizontally occupied by the things of this world, being dazzled more by the lights of the city than the starry heavens. If you lost that sense of awe and wonder of God, I recommend heading away from the light pollution of the town or city on a clear night and find a conducive spot to relax and gaze into the night sky, to get a visual on just how great a God we serve (Psa 19:1-2; Rom 1:19-20).
This is a good spiritual exercise for we often lose sight of the majesty of God with our struggling on the horizontal plane of living, affecting our insight and eyesight. It helps to recapture the breathtaking testament of the beauty and magnificence of the power and glory of God Almighty. It might just be the visual reminder you need that gets you over the hurdle of doubting God’s ability to work in your life. And as far as caring for you, the cross says it all (see Jn 3:16; Rom 5:8; Rom 8:38-39) which leads us back to God’s special revelation, His Word. The visual is fine, but the written Word is the icing on the cake! If God can speak this world into existence (Psa 33:6), He’s got the ability, the knowledge, and the wisdom to create in us a clean heart when we get muddied by doubt and sin (Psa 51:10; 1 Jn 1:9) and works all things together for the good. It takes an all powerful, all knowing, and all wise God to make Romans 8:28 a reality in our lives.
Sure there is a lot of space between earth and God’s heavenly abode, but since the Holy Spirit lives within the heart of every born again believer, heaven doesn’t get any closer than that on this side of eternity. All of us need a little space now and again to collect our thoughts and regain some perspective of the world around us by looking upward at the stunning visual display of the majesty and greatness of our God (Psa 19:1; 147:5; Jer 32:17), but it is prudent to always measure our experience by the Word. The immensity of space (general or natural revelation) and the depth of God’s love (special or supernatural revelation) are enough to send anyone into an orbit of worship who has a heart for God. When was the last time you "considered?" <><
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