God's Stars

I have been thinking about ways God is so much MORE...more than I could ever comprehend or understand. I've been looking up what God has to say in his Word about stars.
"To whom then will you liken me, that I should be his equal? says the Holy One. Lift up your eyes on high and see who has created these stars. The One who leads forth their host by number, He calls them all by name; because of the greatness of His might and the strength of his power not one of them is missing." Isaiah 40:25-26

"He counts the number of the stars, He calls them all by their names. Great is our Lord and abundant in strength. His understanding is infinite."

Psalm 147: 4-5

"There are also heavenly bodies and earthly bodies, but the glory of the heavenly is one and the glory of the earthly is another. There is one glory of the sun, another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars, for star differs from star in glory." I Corinthians 15: 40-41

Some of the ways stars are mentioned in the scriptures:

• God created the stars in Genesis...'the moon and the stars to RULE by night.' "Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth...when the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?" Job 38:4 & 7 "Who gives the sun for light by day, and the fixed order of the moon and the stars for light by night?"
• God called them all by their names
• God likens His Son to a star

A star shall rise forth from Jacob...(Numbers)

I am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end, the root and the offspring of David, the bright morning star." Rev. 22

"Until the day dawns and the Morning Star arises in your hearts." II Peter 1:19

• The sign of the birth of God's son was the sign of HIS star in the heavens Matthew 2:2
• A description of ungodly persons: "Hidden reefs, clouds without water, autumn trees without fruit, wild waves of the sea and wandering stars for whom the blackness of darkness has been reserved forever." Jude 13 (Interesting that these 'stars' are not fixed in their order)
• Signs of God's judgement "Darkening of the sun and moon and the falling of the stars from the sky" Matthew 24:29

The seven stars of Revelation are the seven churches in His right hand.

The judgements in Revelation: "a great star fell from heaven, burning like a torch...and the name of the star is called Wormwood (bitter). Rev. 8:10-11

"a star from heaven which had fallen to earth. And the key of the bottomless pit was given to him. And he opened the bottomless pit and smoke went up out of the pit and the sun and the air were darkened."

Interesting isn't it? God has numbered all the stars, given them all names and talks with them in calling them by their names. They seem to have different degrees and possibly differing jobs. They have relational personality in these verses...are some of the stars or all of them angels? There is no answer to this question, just conjecture. But the bottom line is...our God is amazing! He is so much more than we can ever ever comprehend, and I'm so glad to have a God to worship who IS more than I understand.