How Great is Our God.

Wednesday, 22 April 2026Psalm 19:1

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Scripture

Psalm 19:1·WEB Translation

The heavens declare the glory of God. The expanse shows His handiwork.

Devotional

252,756 Miles From Home

Since the Artemis 2 space mission the other week, I've bought my four-year-old a space book. Big pages, full of photographs and he is completely obsessed with it. We read it most nights before bed. Galaxies. Nebulas. Stars so far away that the light reaching us left before humans existed.

He points at the pictures and asks questions I can't always answer. I try anyway. But what gets me every time isn't the facts, though the facts are staggering. It's the images.

A nebula that looks like a pillar of fire stretching across light-years. A galaxy with 200 billion stars, and that's just one galaxy among hundreds of billions of others. I stare at those photos, and my sense of scale collapses. The thing I was worried about an hour ago suddenly feels very small.

And then I realize that God made all this. Not just the Earth, not just our solar system. All of it. The pillars and the galaxies and the empty distances between them that take light thousands of years to cross. He spoke it into existence, knows every part of it, and holds it all together.

"The heavens declare the glory of God. The expanse shows His handiwork." - Psalm 19:1

The heavens aren't just decorative. They're saying something. Every nebula, every galaxy, every impossibly vast stretch of space is a statement about who God is.

And this is the same God who knows your name. Who hears your prayers. Who calls you His.

Nothing you're carrying today is too big for Him.

How great is our God.

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Prayer

How great is our God, beyond measure, beyond compare, beyond anything we could imagine or describe, magnificent in power, perfect in love, awesome in glory.

Your greatness surrounds me everywhere I look, in creation that declares Your majesty, in provision that proves Your care, in moments where You show up and I'm left in awe.

Teach me to live in constant wonder at Your greatness, to never become so familiar with You that I lose the ability to be amazed, to worship You with fresh eyes every day.

You're great in ways I understand and ways I don't, great in power that creates galaxies and in gentleness that notices sparrows, great in justice and in mercy simultaneously.

Help me respond to Your greatness appropriately, with humility that knows my place, with worship that reflects Your worth, with trust that builds on who You are.

Remind me that seeing Your greatness puts my problems in perspective, that what overwhelms me is small to You, that nothing I face is bigger than our great God.

Give me a heart that never stops marveling at how great You are, eyes that keep seeing Your greatness in new ways, a spirit that worships You for magnificence I'll spend eternity discovering.

Let me declare today with all my heart, how great is our God, worshiping the One whose greatness knows no limit, no end, no equal.

In Jesus' name,

Amen.

Journaling Prompts

Q.When did something in creation last make you stop and feel the size of God?
Q.What would it change about today if you started it by remembering how great God is?
Q.Is there a problem you're carrying that feels bigger than God right now? What does Psalm 19:1 say about that?
Q.How do you keep a sense of wonder about God when life gets routine?
Q.What's one thing in creation you want to look at differently after reading this?