You see the HUGE sphere? That’s the sun–93 million miles away! You see the small speck left of center? That’s the space station–in orbit about 250 miles above earth. See the teeny-tiny speck to the left of the station? That’s our US space shuttle. Pictures like this remind me just how small we are and how beautiful, glorious, strong, and holy our Creator is. As massive as the sun is, there is a God who merely spoke it into existence and holds it in place!!! Yet He is not a God who stands detached from His creation. He is not far off. He drew near to us in Jesus, His son. “He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation. For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities–all things were created through him and for him. And he is before all things, and in him all things hold together…For in him all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell” (Colossians 1:15-17, 19) and “who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but made himself nothing, taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross. Therefore God has hightly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name, so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father” (Philippians 2:6-11) Can you imagine anything brighter than the sun? Yet the New Jerusalem “has no need of sun or moon to shine on it, for the glory of God gives it light, and its lamp is the Lamb” (Revelation 21:23).