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Blazing Glory: How the Sun Displays the Power of God

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Our sun is, by far, the dominant force of our solar system. If we were to gather into one ball all of the planets and their moons, the asteroids, the comets, and everything else in our solar system besides the sun, it would amount to no more than 0.2% of the total mass. Yes, our sun makes up 99.8% of the total mass of our solar system. 

From our vantage point, the sun doesn’t seem so massive as this because it’s a relatively small object in our sky. But if we had the ability to view our solar system from above, we would be stunned by how huge the sun is and how tiny the earth is. It would, in fact, take over one-million earths to fill up the interior of the sun. 

And in addition to the size of the sun, our solar system is totally dependent upon it for light, heat, and energy. To remove the sun would be to destroy the solar system and kill the possibility of life therein. 

As John Piper has said, our sun is the blazing center of our solar system, and as such it is a fitting display of the glory of God in our lives. Like the sun, God is the dominant reality of life. He is the great I Am. He so far outweighs everything outside of himself, that the relationship could never be captured by a mathematical equation. How could we ever express the difference between the infinite One and the finite things he has created? 

And like the sun, God is the source of light, heat, energy, and everything else we need for life. He is the only one who gives without taking. Who supports without being supported. Who sustains without being sustained. Indeed, he is the great I Am. He is the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. He is the dominant force and the ultimate source of life. He is very great and greatly to be praised!

God is the blazing center of life, and every time we see the sun or benefit from its light or feel its warmth upon our bodies we should remember this glorious truth and worship God with all of our hearts. 

As the Lord himself has said, “I am the Lord, and there is no other, besides me there is no God; I equip you, though you do not know me, that people may know, from the rising of the sun and from the west, that there is none besides me; I am the Lord, and there is no other. I form light and create darkness, I make well-being and create calamity, I am the Lord, who does all these things” (Isaiah 45:5-7).

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