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A God Worthy Of Our Love Series
Contributed by Steve Malone on Jul 30, 2018 (message contributor)
Summary: In this conversation we talked about how because God is great and God is good that He is worthy of our love.
The Sun would be 15 feet in diameter.
960,000 golf balls would fit inside.
That is a lot of golf balls.
In fact it’s enough golf balls to fill an entire school bus.
Now this second star when I first heard about it, it totally blew my mind, Betelgeuse.
HERE IT IS IN OUR SKY
YEAH – I know it does not look all that impressive but give it a break, after all – it is 427 light years away.
(a light year is 5.8 trillion miles)
AND – it is really big…
IN FACT – it is 2 times the size of… not of the sun, but 2 times the size of the earth’s orbit around the sun. It is 561 million miles in diameter.
IF – the earth were a golf ball Betelgeuse would be the height of 6 Empire State Buildings on top of each other.
AND IF – that does not blow your mind…
Hop in your car this week with your family and bring your golf ball. Go into midtown. Walk up to the Empire State Building and put your golf ball right up to it, and don’t worry no one will think that it’s strange – you are in New York.
THEN – walk across the street… and try to spot your golf ball and then look up to the top of The Empire State Building (1,454 feet) and image 5 more on top of it…
That is how big Betelgeuse is.
262 trillion earths would fit inside of it.
AND IF – earth were a golf ball, that number of golf balls would fill the Super Dome… 3000 times!
R U kidding me!
UNDERSTAND - it’s not
Twinkle, twinkle little star
How I wonder what you are
NO – I know what you are!
And what you are is – huge, intense, massive and ferocious…
Just one more star… and we are still in the Milky Way…
3900 light years away is one of the largest stars in our Galaxy
Canis Majoris
If there earth were a golf ball, Canis Majoris would be the height of Mt Everest almost 6 miles above sea level.
7 quadrillion earths would fit inside this star.
That’s a hard number to comprehend.
Now everyone knows a million right
A billion = 1,000 million
A Trillion = 1,000 billion
A quadrillion = 1,000 trillion
OKAY – so a million seconds ago = 12 days ago
How about a billion seconds ago?
(yeah, maybe you’re thinking I am going to say something like last August)
How about March 1979…
How about a trillion seconds ago…
Now your like the 1800’s (no)
Christopher Columbus (no)
Jesus (no)
A trillions seconds ago is 29,000BC
And a quadrillion seconds ago – is 30,800,000 BC
YEAH – a quadrillion is a huge number
And 7 quadrillion earths would fit inside of this one star that our God simply breathed out of his mouth.
AND – if earth were a golf ball that number would cover the entire state of Texas 23 inches deep.
AND WE ARE - just talking about a couple of star in one galaxy among billions of Galaxies.
YOU KNOW – when I consider all of this… A shrinking feeling comes over me…
NOT – a bad shrinking feeling, bad a good shrinking feeling.
BECAUSE SIN – has a way of shrinking God down in our minds and puffing us up in our own estimation.
BUT – just a glance in the universe that God has made, resizes everything in a heartbeat.
I MEAN – you realize B/S that we are worshipping an
Unrivaled, Uncontested God… Of all kind of might and power and glory and awe… and there is none like Him in of creation!!!
