Little Chats With God

Posts Tagged ‘creation’

 “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?” Psalm 8:3-4Psalm 8:3-4
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3 When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, The moon and the stars, which you have ordained; ⁴ What is man, that you think of him? The son of man, that you care for him?

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Lord, You know those verses have always spoken to me, as has that old hymn, “How Great Thou Art”. Yet they seem so inadequate. Just how am I supposed to wrap words around Your greatness? You are far bigger than anything I can even begin to imagine. Your Word tells me that You measure the heavens with a span – in other words, You hold the universe in the palm of Your hand. That’s way too big for me, Lord! Sometimes I think about the difference between an ant and me, but that’s not even the tiniest fragment of the difference between me and You. And that’s only Your size!

The thought of Your power leaves me totally speechless. I can’t even begin to imagine the kind of power it took to bring this whole, vast, complex universe into being at a word. The kind of power that in the same nanosecond could craft the intricacies of the atom and the fathomless reaches of deep space.

I can’t get my mind around the kind of wisdom and knowledge that could produce the almost endless array of life on this planet, fashioning not only each kind to be different from all the others, but every individual to be unique within its kind. It blows my mind when I think that You know everything that has ever happened and will ever happen, every thought, word and action of every person who has ever lived, or will ever live – not to mention that You also know all the things that could have happened if at any given instant any individual had done something differently.

It’s waaaay to big for me, Lord. There is no way my mind will ever be able to grasp it. Instead, I will simply bow in worship. How great You are!