Thank you for the application question, “What do we learn about God when we read He both 1) made the stars and numbers them and 2) numbers the hairs on your head?”
As one ponders your question, here are some thoughts about what we can learn about the Creator God:
A. God is the Creator of Universe and of Earth. He is the one who caused the inanimate and animate beings to come into existence. It also implies that there is a purpose by God in bringing the Universe into existence and our own existence.
B. God is omnipotent in making the vastness and varieties of stars and the minuteness or intricacy of one’s life. Each star has a design and so each person has an unique design. Our hair reflects something of our uniqueness in our appearance. There’s no one like you just as each star is different.
C. God’s omniscience in knowing the numbers of stars and the number of hairs that we have on our head. As cosmologists estimate the number of stars and the dimension of our Universe, God knows the exact number of stars at any given moment of time and the moments of our lives. There are no surprises with God. It’s not just about hair, but he knows the details of our lives.
D. God’s omnipresence is reflecting in both being transcendent and imminent. God is personal involved with his creation and ourselves. It’s more than just knowing the facts of our lives, but he is intimately present with us. It’s astonishing to think that a believer can have fellowship with the Creator God. He is not just on his throne, but he is also with us.
E. God’s grace and mercy expressed to his animate beings. If God knows the numbers of hair on our heads, this would also imply that he knows our needs and desires. An inanimate object can’t vocalize a need, but as animate beings whether animals or humans, we have the ability to express oneself. One can find great comfort that God will respond to my cries for help. He does not ignore his creation for he made us. The expressions of his grace and mercy may vary from person to person, to community groups to countries. We must mean something to him and he has the means to meet that need for he is a compassionate and merciful God.
F. God’s glory can be seen in the stars and in humans. As the brightness of the stars with all its magnificence reflects something of the glory and beauty of God, so human beings are made in the image of likeness of God is able to reflect the creativity of God. We are able to “grow” or graft hair, to change our appearances through cosmetics or cosmetic surgery. We are in awe when we see a new star that is “born” even as we see a life come into this world. It is a wondrous sight.
As the star fades so our hair will fade in color and in number. There is an end to the stars and the end of growth of hair on our head. It will happened over time but the cessation of the star or of human is not the end of the story. Energy can’t be destroy so neither can the human soul be destroyed.
The Apostle Paul writes that all creation awaits for a time when it will be free from decay, both inanimate objects and animate objects.
Paul says this in Romans 8, “I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us. 19 For the creation waits in eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed. 20 For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope 21 that the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the freedom and glory of the children of God.
22 We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time. 23 Not only so, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption to sonship, the redemption of our bodies. 24 For in this hope we were saved. But hope that is seen is no hope at all. Who hopes for what they already have? 25 But if we hope for what we do not yet have, we wait for it patiently” (NIV).
SUMMARY: There is more to the story of God creating stars and knowing the number of hairs on our head. The story is about the Creator God and his creation.
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