{"id":5403,"date":"2023-03-15T17:15:07","date_gmt":"2023-03-15T22:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=5403"},"modified":"2023-03-15T17:15:08","modified_gmt":"2023-03-15T22:15:08","slug":"how-many","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=5403","title":{"rendered":"HOW MANY ?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>HOW MANY STARS IN THE SKY ?<br>HOW MANY GRAINS IN THE SAND ?<br>HOW MANY HAIRS ON MY HEAD ?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A multitude of Bible verses about the stars.<br>My favorite is a very short end of a verse in creation, &#8220;. . . and He made the stars also.&#8221;&#8212;minor detail ? just to show the magnitude of our God.<br>How many stars ?  Only God knows, &#8220;He tells the <strong>number<\/strong> of <strong>the<\/strong> <strong>stars<\/strong>; he calls them all by their names.&#8221;&#8212;minor detail ? just to show the magnitude of our God.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I wonder how the number of stars in the sky compares to the number of grains of sand on the earth.<br>God doesn&#8217;t miss an opportunity to show His love with big numbers in creation beyond our counting.<br>&#8220;How precious also are Your thoughts to me, O God!<br>How great is the sum of them!<br>If I should count them, they would be more in number than the sand.&#8221;&#8212; minor detail ? just to show the magnitude of our God.<br>How many grains of sand ?  How many times does God think about me ?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our concern about losing our hair&#8212;not to worry, God keeps track of every one.<br>How does that detail compare to the &#8216;big&#8217; things that give us anxiety ?<br>&#8220;Even the hairs of your head are all numbered. Therefore do not fear . . .&#8221;&#8212;minor detail ? just to show the magnitude of our God.<br>How many hairs ?  Enough for Jesus to bother to count to tell us to not fear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HOW MANY STARS IN THE SKY ?HOW MANY GRAINS IN THE SAND ?HOW MANY HAIRS ON MY HEAD ? A multitude of Bible verses about the stars.My favorite is a very short end of a verse in creation, &#8220;. . . and He made the stars also.&#8221;&#8212;minor detail ? just to show the magnitude of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith_based","category-inspire_lifter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5403"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5403"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5404,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5403\/revisions\/5404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}