Feeling Small

We watched Louie Giglio's sermon, Indescribable, in church on Sunday, and it's still reverberating around in my head and heart.  Louie showed a lot of breathtaking pictures...the sun, galaxies, and pictures of space that are billions and billions of miles away.  I can't tell you what most of them even were, but I know they were mind-bogglingly massive, and they were astoundingly beautiful.  And they were all made by an extraordinarily creative God. 

By the word of the Lord were the heavens made, their starry host by the breath of his mouth. He gathers the waters of the sea into jars; he puts the deep into storehouses. Let all the earth fear the Lord; let all the people of the world revere him. For he spoke, and it came to be; he commanded, and it stood firm.

Here's the part that I'm still contemplating though. Did you ever stop and think about how extremely insignificant we are in the grand scheme of things? Our lives are pretty short in comparison to the history of the world. And when you compare the length of life to eternity, we're just a mere blip on the radar. In comparison to the expanse of the universe, we're nothing more than a speck of dust.

Psalm 8:3-4

When I consider your heavens,
the work of your fingers,
the moon and the stars,
which you have set in place,
what is man that you are mindful of him,
the son of man that you care for him?

Yet, the same Creator of the universe lovingly made each of us and knows each and every one of us by name.  That same Creator loved each and every one of us enough to send His Son to take our place and die for us so that we could spend an eternity with Him.  He's the same God who has adopted us into His family, and we can know Him intimately as our Daddy. 

You received God’s Spirit when he adopted you as his own children. Now we call him, "Abba, Father."

Now to me, that is absolutely awesome!  We are so very small, and yet our great God loves us so amazingly much!!

 Psalm 145

The Lord is gracious and compassionate,
slow to anger and rich in love.
The Lord is good to all;
he has compassion on all he has made.
The Lord is faithful to all his promises
and loving toward all he has made.
The Lord upholds all those who fall
and lifts up all who are bowed down.
The eyes of all look to you,
and you give them their food at the proper time.
You open your hand
and satisfy the desires of every living thing.
The Lord is righteous in all his ways
and loving toward all he has made.
The Lord is near to all who call on him,
to all who call on him in truth.
He fulfills the desires of those who fear him;
he hears their cry and saves them.