Let me share some interesting facts from a book by Terrence Dickinson: If we could travel at the speed of light, it would take us 80,000 years just to cross
our own Milky Way galaxy. Our galaxy alone contains over 200 billion stars like our sun.
Once leaving our galaxy, traveling at 186,000 miles per second, it would take us 42,000 years to get to the next closest galaxy from our own Milky Way.
There are more than 100 billion galaxies in the universe. It would take us 156 billion years, traveling at the speed of light, to cross the entire universe. We are the only known advanced life in the entire universe.
Psalm 8 says, “When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars that you have established, what are human beings that 
you are mindful of them? Yet you have made them a little lower than the angels, and crowned them with glory and honor.”
God stands outside of, and his presence permeates, the entire universe. God is at work in the ongoing creation of new planets, stars and galaxies. God rules over the vastness of the universe, and sustains it by his power. Our galaxy is but one small part of God’s cosmos, and our planet is but one spec in our galaxy, and each one of us is but one of six billion people living in this moment in time.
That God knows our names is but one of a million reasons why we should drop to our knees daily to offer a simple three-word prayer: “Thank you, God.”
