Psalm 19:4b   
Astronomical camping!
      The imagery here is quite intriguing; for those of us who are little more than ants scurrying around on a singular planet. The sun is a vast and complex, celestial object that dominates the space around us. Consider the following: -
The Sun accounts for 99.86% of the mass in the solar system. It has a mass of around 330,000 times that of Earth. It is three quarters hydrogen and most of its remaining mass is helium.
Over one million Earth’s could fit inside the Sun. If you were to fill a hollow Sun with spherical Earths, somewhere around 960,000 would fit inside. However, if you squashed those Earths to ensure there was no wasted space then you could fit 1,300,000 Earths inside the Sun. The surface area of the Sun is 11,990 times that of Earth.
The Sun is almost a perfect sphere. Considering the sheer size of the Sun, there is only a 10 km difference in its polar and equatorial diameters – this makes it the closest thing to a perfect sphere observed in nature.
The Sun is travelling at 220 km per second. It is around 24,000-26,000 light-years from the galactic centre and it takes the Sun approximately 225-250 million years to complete one orbit of the centre of the Milky Way. 
It takes eight minutes for light reach Earth from the Sun. The average distance from the Sun to the Earth is about 150 million km. Light travels at 300,000 km per second so dividing one by the other gives you 500 seconds – eight minutes and twenty seconds. This energy can reach Earth in mere minutes, but it takes millions of years to travel from the Sun’s core to its surface.
Temperatures inside the Sun can reach 15 million degrees Celsius. Energy is generated through nuclear fusion in the Sun’s core – this is when hydrogen converts to helium – and because objects generally expand, the Sun would explode like an enormous bomb if it wasn’t for its tremendous gravitational pull.

If these facts tell us about the sun, what do they tell us about the God who casually threw it into space in order to provide light and heat for our planet?  If we are just ants scurrying around on the surface of a planet for a limited time, what is He? The immediate heavens around us are just a tent created to hold the sun! Wow! If my God can do all of that I can surely trust Him with anything and everything? Is anything too hard for God? Let’s somehow give Him the honour and praise that He is due, although that will never be enough. If we were to devote every minute of every day of our lives to His service, it would not be enough. Words cannot express His greatness and our insignificance and yet He calls us His children – valued and loved. Hallelujah!

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