Let the Star-Filled Sky Speak

December 19, 2007

By James Fields

While living in Tokyo, Delores and I rarely saw the stars and moon. Dense air pollution and frequent cloud cover obscured heavenly objects from view. When we returned to America, I began thoroughly enjoying the Lord's star-filled sky!

The star-filled sky speaks in God's behalf to us earthbound humans.

The star-filled sky proclaims your God is great. "Lift your eyes and look to the heavens: Who created all these? He who brings out the starry host one by one, and calls them each by name. Because of his great power and mighty strength, not one of them is missing" (Isaiah 40:26, NIV). The God who created the vastness or our universe is the same God who commits His infinite power to guiding your life.

The star-filled sky proclaims God's blessing upon you will exceed your expectations. God once told the childless Abraham to count the stars. The Lord added, "So shall your offspring be" (Genesis 15:5). Astronomers tell us the unaided eye sees about 2,500 stars. Modern technology shows us millions of stars. If Abraham of old had counted all the visible stars, he would have fallen exceedingly short of the number of descendants God intended to give him. Next time things in life are going badly for you, remember your God is able to do more than all you ask or imagine possible!

A "star" also played a key role in the events we commemorate this Christmas. God used a different kind of star, one that could point the way to the Christ Child, to guide the Wise Men.

"The star they had seen in the east went ahead of them until it stopped over the place where the child was" (Matthew 2:9).

Have you found your way to Christ? Today would be a perfect day to do so.

-- James and Delores Fields are veteran Assemblies of God pastors and former missionaries. They founded Comfort and Encouragement Ministries in 1997.