Economy of Scale

If you tried to name them, one a second, naming all the stars in our galaxy...I don't mean all the stars in the universe, just this galaxy here...it takes 3000 years. And yet, that's not a very big number. Because if those stars were to drop one dollar bill on the earth during a year, each start dropping one dollar bill, they might take care of the deficit which is suggested for the budget of the United States.

- Richard Feynman, Physicist, from a 1983 interview.

Speaking from a more directly spiritual point of application, think of this scale in terms of a man's faith:

And he brought him outside and said, “Look toward heaven, and number the stars, if you are able to number them.” Then he said to him, “So shall your offspring be.” And he believed the Lord, and he counted it to him as righteousness.
Genesis 15:5,6

This is the account of a 90+ year old man with a wife who was aged and barren. To believe that God would provide a single child is faith enough. But God did not stop there in pushing Abraham beyond the realms of probability. The Lord outlined a plan that was beyond believable, and used a metaphor that even today is incomprehensible - "so (as the number of stars) shall your offspring be".

When Abraham is said to have believed God, it is a synonym for faith (in other words, trust). Faith can be then explained as to come to a point where your mind and heart and soul agree with reality; and reality is that the resources to accomplish God's righteous will are completely outside one's capacity. It is the realization that God alone can accomplish what He wills of you. Therefore, the only right human response is complete abandonment of oneself to God. This is the faith that God counts as righteousness, the opposite of work - absolute dependence.