Genesis 1:14-19
And God said, "Let there be lights in the expanse of the heavens to separate the day from the night. And let them be for signs and for seasons, and for days and years, 15and let them be lights in the expanse of the heavens to give light upon the earth." And it was so. 16And God made the two great lights--the greater light to rule the day and the lesser light to rule the night--and the stars. 17And God set them in the expanse of the heavens to give light on the earth, 18to rule over the day and over the night, and to separate the light from the darkness. And God saw that it was good. 19And there was evening and there was morning, the fourth day.
Matthew Henry: “(3.) He made the stars also, which are here spoken of as they appear to vulgar eyes, without distinguishing between the planets and the fixed stars, or accounting for their number, nature, place, magnitude, motions, or influences; for the scriptures were written, not to gratify our curiosity and make us astronomers, but to lead us to God, and make us saints.”
Clay Miller: This is such a succinct statement… “He made the stars also”. No big deal…to God. But it is a real big deal to our puny achievements. Last night I went outside and looked at the stars. Those stars were placed there by God. It is awesome to think that Adam and Eve looked on those same stars as I am. They have been up there witnessing every human life and event from day 1 of humanity!
The Bible is not an astronomy book. We say it is inerrant and infallible and the sole rule of faith for our lives. But we do not say that it contains all truth. There is much to discover scientifically, much that has been discovered. But what we discover will always line up with God’s Scripture because the same God who wrote the Scriptures created the world and all that is in it. I was thinking about the magnitude of the stars…two posts back I wrote about our star, the sun. We call people stars who for whatever reason are popular from some talent. They are stars because they can act, sing, model, play a sport or whatever. Compare their stardom to the sun alone, a small star. They are nothing. Yet people scream and pass out if a man or woman star merely glances at them or “graces” them with their presence. And the sun and night stars? They rarely even acknowledge they are there. They even more rarely stand in awe of the God who created such superstars of creation. So take some time to take your eyes off artificial stars and look at the stars above. You may find yourself in awe of their Creator so much so that the self-ascribed stars won’t be that much of a big deal anymore. You will certainly see that the stars we “create” are as nothing compared to God’s power to create
