What An Awesome God!

Wow!  What an awesome God we serve!  1 John 5:4b-5 says, "This is the victory that has overcome the world, even our faith.  Who is it that overcomes the world? Only he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God."  I have noticed several verses pointing out the victory that we have as believers in Jesus Christ all because of what our marvelous Savior has done for us.  I was looking at the following pictures I posted of the Top Ten Pictures taken by the Hubble Telescope and later looked up and saw the most beautiful sky:

I suddenly realized a little bit better just how big and great God is!  When you read the size of the galaxies pictured here, just think that our God made each one by the word of His mouth on the fourth day!!  If my God can put such wonders into perfect motion and order, who am I that He takes any notice of me?  Why am I so important that He would send His only beloved Son, Jesus, to one small planet to die for a group of people who hated Him and sinned against Him?  Because of the abundance of His great love!  When I remember this, it really should change how I live my daily life!  If God is such a great God and loves me so much, why should I worry?  What can take God by surprise?  What care of mine does He not have under His complete control?  We can live victoriously because of what Jesus did for us and because God is so big and so powerful.  He has everything under His control!!  I guess that is why Proverbs 3:5-6 says, 

"Trust in the Lord with all your heart and do not lean on your own understanding.  In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will make your paths straight."

Psalms 8:4 "What is man that You take thought of him, and the son of man that You care for him?"

The Top Ten Pictures Taken by the Hubblespace Telescope

One light year is 5,879,000,000,000 miles!

The   Sombrero   Galaxy - 28 million light years from Earth - was voted best picture taken by the Hubble telescope.  The dimensions of the galaxy, officially called M104, are as spectacular as its appearance It has 800 billion suns and is 50,000 light years across.

The Ant Nebula, a cloud of dust and gas whose technical name is Mz3, resembles an ant when observed using ground-based telescopes...  The nebula lies within our galaxy between 3,000 and 6,000 light years from earth.

In third place is Nebula NGC 2392, called 'Eskimo' because it looks like a face surrounded by a furry hood.  The hood is, in fact, a ring of comet-shaped objects flying away from a dying star.  Eskimo is 5,000 light years from Earth.

At four is the Cat's Eye Nebula.

The Hourglass Nebula, 8,000 light years away, has a 'pinched-in-the-middle' look because the winds that shape it are weaker at the centre.

In sixth place is the Cone Nebula.  The part pictured here is 2.5 light years in length (the equivalent of 23 million return trips to the Moon).

The Perfect Storm, a small region in the Swan Nebula, 5,500 light years away, described as 'a bubbly ocean of hydrogen and small amounts of oxygen, sulphur and other elements'.

Starry Night, so named because it reminded astronomers of the Van Gogh painting.  It is a halo of light around a star in the Milky Way.

The glowering eyes from 114 million light years away are the swirling cores of two merging galaxies called NGC 2207 and IC 2163 in the distant Canis Major constellation.

The Trifid Nebula. A 'stellar nursery', 9,000 light years from here, it is where new stars are being born.