Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star

This week take a few minutes to discuss God's everlasting greatness and goodness with this family devotional idea.

On a clear, moonless night, a thousand or more stars are visible.
Five of our solar system's eight planets, a few star clusters, a spiral galaxy, and the odd bright comet are visible, too. (Depending on the age level of your kids, Google stargazing for more tips.)

With the advent of telescopes, very many previously unknown stars were discovered. Galileo using his homemade telescope, saw a ten-fold increase in the number of visible stars, up to 30,000.

Today, the local Milky Way galaxy (of which our sun is a part) has been found to contain 200,000 million stars. What an astounding result! If somebody could count three stars per second, after 100 years he would have counted less than five percent of this number.

The total number of stars in the observable universe is estimated to be 1025
(1 followed by 25 zeros). Nobody knows the actual number.

(Go to www.answersingenesis.org for more amazing star facts.)

Ask:
Who made the stars? (God - read Genesis 1:16)

Psalm 147:4 says that God knows the number of the stars and he calls them all by their names.

In Psalm 8:3, David said, "When I consider Your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which You have ordained; What is man, that You are mindful of him? and the son of man, that You visit him?

Say a prayer of praise to God for His great wisdom and power in creating the stars.

Source: Splink