Psalm 103:11-12
For as high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is his love for those who fear him; as far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed our transgressions from us.
The furthest galaxy in the universe is thought to be something like 30 billion light years away from earth. A light year is about 9.5 trillion kilometres. Numbers like that feel impossible to get to grips with. When David wrote this psalm, before the days of astrophysicists with sophisticated telescopes, he had a more poetic way of describing the same thing: 'as high as the heavens are above the earth'. He's not thinking of a particular measurement, a specific number. I take it he means 'as far as the biggest thing you could possibly imagine'. There is
NOTHING in the entire universe bigger than God's love. Nothing can overwhelm it or eclipse it. There is nowhere you can go that is beyond it.
Concepts that big make us feel very small. Rightly so. God's great love is 'for those who fear him'. This fear is not the terror of the unrepentant sinner facing judgement. It is the right awe and respect of a creature who knows that they are as nothing before their mighty creator who is bigger and more wonderful than they can even begin to understand. It is the deep reverence of a creature who knows that they are like dust, and yet is more loved than they can imagine.
Let's praise God for his limitless love today!
