How great is our God

How amazing is our Creator God, how creative he is, how vast is the extent of his wonders, how detailed the design, how colourful he is! With ever developing technology, his wonders can increasingly be seen and discovered.
 
I was astounded a while back when I saw a photo of the most detailed view, to date, of one human cell – the intricacy, the detail, the complexities in that one little cell! To the other extreme, I recently watched a You Tube clip that NASA released of ‘20 jaw- dropping new images.’ It was too technical for the likes of me to really understand but the images were amazing and some of the descriptions alongside the video used phrases such as ‘a visual feast of galaxies ….the beginnings of new stars 3million light years away…… in its symmetry and silence we see how galaxies build the grand architecture of the universe……...each light speck here is a universe of its own…… a fragment of cosmic history frozen in time… a Butterfly Star is surrounded by a planet forming discs 65 billion kilometres wide.. two towering structures called the Pillars of Creation cradle new born stars within …….’. 
 
How great is our God! And yet there is so much more of his creation to be discovered. As the last sentence in the video said ‘somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known……..’
 
It's the first Sunday of Advent when we start to remember, reflect on and celebrate Jesus’ birth and also anticipate his return at the second coming. How incredible that the One who created and is still creating and designing all of the above, from vast galaxies to new people, down to the intricacies of each individual cell with unique DNA in our bodies, should choose to be born as a tiny little baby in the person of Jesus Christ. Philippians 2v 7 says….he made himself nothing, taking the very nature of a servant being made in human likeness…’ And how amazing is the fact that he was born to die on a cross ‘ v 8 he became obedient to death, even death on a cross’ to bring us, those he has created, into a personal relationship with Him -  all because he loves us and wants to save us. May our message and lifestyle this Christmas season inspire many more people to come to know this majestic, loving Creator God and realise that even more important than creating new galaxies and stars, the God behind it all is waiting for them to believe in him, love him and receive the life he has to offer. It’s not just that, as the video said ‘somewhere something incredible is waiting to be known……..’ but it’s Someone.
Julie Shimzu