by Pastor Douglas Brauner

God’s Majesty in the Face of Our Smallness.

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“When I look at 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,
    and the son of man that you care for him?
Yet you have made him a little lower than the heavenly beings
    and crowned him with glory and honor.”
Psalm 8:3-5 English Standard Version

Have you stared at the ocean or contemplated the stars and felt small and insignificant? Have you found yourself on a crowed sidewalk and felt unimportant, a nameless person walking among nameless people? I know a cheery, upbeat way to start a devotion, right?

However, we all feel small and insignificant at times, especially when we meditate and ponder the greatness of God, when we sit in God’s magnificent room of creation and stare at what he has called into existence. Creation reminds us that we would never understand who God is except that he reveals himself to us, and even at that, God gives us only a glimpse as if we were Moses on Mt. Sinai.

It is important for us not only to confess that we believe in “God the Father almighty, Maker of heaven and earth,” but to contemplate what it means to believe that he is the Almighty who creates what no human can fully understand. His power stretches from the edges of the universe to the speck of a speck that we call planet earth. That this God almighty is the God who has fashioned each of us to be who we are. It is this almighty Creator who in love empty heaven of Jesus to save us, the God who knows the exact number of hairs on our heads.

It’s okay to get lost in the view from God’s room. It’s okay not to understand all that God is. But better yet is to believe that he loves you and will never abandon you, his child.

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