4 - LORD'S PRAYER - the Servant's PetitionsНамуна

14 – God the Creator

“For yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever.” (Matthew 6:13, NKJV)

This doxology—a declaration of praise to God—appears in about half of the New Testament translations. And when we read it, we might ask ourselves:

• Do these words truly convince me?
• Do I really believe that God reigns in heaven and on earth?
• Do I trust Him as the One who controls history?
• Do I accept that, although He is my Father, He is also the sovereign ruler of the universe, before whom I am almost nothing?
• Do I understand that everything exists by His will?
• Do I recognize that one day I must stand before Him, give an account of my life, and seek His mercy?

If my answer is yes, then the Lord will surely receive my praise, my worship, and my honor.

God, the Creator!

Science now estimates that our galaxy, the Milky Way, contains between 200 and 400 billion stars. In March 2025, the Kilo-Degree Survey (KiDS) confirmed that the distribution of the 41 million galaxies it mapped aligns with the standard model of cosmology, reinforcing the idea of a coherent and ordered universe. Today, astronomers estimate that the observable universe holds between 1 and 2 trillion galaxies, each with hundreds of billions of stars.

Altogether, the total estimated number of stars in the observable universe is about 10²⁴ —a number that surpasses the grains of sand on every beach on Earth.

Faced with such incomprehensible vastness, what is man? We live on a small rocky planet, about 6,400 km in radius, covered by a thin solid crust like the shell of an egg. Earth spins on its axis like a top, orbits the Sun with other planets, and the entire solar system moves through space toward a destination still unknown to us.

And yet, Scripture declares that human beings were made:

“You have made them a little lower than the angels and crowned them with glory and honor.” (Psalm 8:5, NIV)

So then, what is our true purpose in all of this?

The Westminster Confession of Faith answers:

“Man’s chief end is to glorify God, and to enjoy him forever.”

(Based on Romans 11:36; 1 Corinthians 10:31; Psalm 73:25–26; Isaiah 43:7; Ephesians 1:5–6)