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By Chris Tomlin, Steven Curtis Chapman
How Great Is Our God
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After the Chris Tomlin concert a few weeks ago I thought a lot about the Greatness and Power of God to create the mind-boggling expanse we call the Universe. Last week's message at CCM by Pastor Marcus Denny brought into sharper perspective, God's creation of the universe and the stars. Thinking about it brought me back to my 9th Grade science class in India, where I learnt about the life stages of a Star. So here is a short explanation as I remember it from 5 years ago. I'm trusting my memory on this so if I'm mistaken in anyway, please let me know. So here it goes.... A Star starts out as a cluster of gases and particles and forms clouds called a Nebula where temperatures approach 3000° C.. 
At this temperature, fusion begins to take place and the gravity and mass of the cluster increases. It forms a baby star or Protostar... 
As it continues to heat up and the temperature reaches the millions °C, it is a bonafide Star. This is the longest stage and this is the stage our sun is currently in... 
After all the fusion has depleted the Hydrogen and formed helium, the Gases expand outward as a ring, but the center continues to fuse Helium. The star expands to form a Red Giant.... 
From here on, it depends on the size of the star. If it is the size of the sun or smaller, it continues to fuse and becomes more dense. It forms a White Dwarf... 
If however, the size is larger than the sun, The center explodes into a Supernova, which can light up a galaxy... 
From here there is another split based on size. Star between 1.5 and 3 times the size of the sun, become very dense Neutron stars. As Pastor Marcus pointed out, a teaspoonful of Neutron Star weighs about a Million tons. 
If the star is larger than 3 times that of the sun, It collapses on itself to form a Black Hole. The gravity in the black hole is so strong, that not even light photons can escape form it, hence the name. This pictures shows light bending and being sucked into a black hole. 
So Yes, after i wrote all this, I realize what a HUGE Nerd i am, but it's all good! But consider this, There are millions upon billions of stars, each in a different stage of it's life. Guess what, the Power of Our God is so awesome he knows each one in it's different stage by Name. Psalm 147:4: "He determines the number of the stars and calls them each by name." The stars make up only a portion of what exists in the universes. It also includes various others bodies like asteroids, comets, planets and the list goes on... All this was created merely by the words of our creator. It was an expanse created effortlessly by his breath. Psalm 33:6: "By the word of the LORD were the heavens made, their starry host by the breath of his mouth." Truly, How Great is Our God who creates the unimaginable, incomprehensible vastness of the Universe by his breath. The Universe is so vast it strectches billions of light years in all direction. For those who don't know, a Light year is the Distance traveled by Light in 1 Calender Year (365.25 Days) at the speed of 186,000 Miles/second, which translates to about 5,879,000,000,000 Miles. This is a mind-numbing number which when multiplied by a billion gives something which our minds cannot even grasp around, all this created by the breath of our God. On another note, Resolved 2007 was possibly life altering for me. It was an overwhelming experience of being saturated with God's word. Summary of each message: Tim Challies Blog The END.
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