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4:13 PM
My mother once lectured in a Sunday school about God laughing at people (Psalm 2:4). "Why should I care if God laughs or not?", I asked myself. It didn't really made any sense back then. Probably because I had the wrong question in mind or somehow I could not make any sense of a laughing God. Few weeks ago, I heard a sermon regarding the universe and how big it is compare to the earth. The speaker said something that really amazed me he said, "If our solar system is a size of a quarter (coin) then the whole Milky way galaxy is the same size as the whole North American continent. It's that small (holding up the quarter in his hand)." Wow!!!! It blew my mind!!!
I thought to myself, all the bragging and all the accomplishments that I attained and I can ever attain amounts to nothing compared to the Milky way galaxy. How much more the whole universe?
No wonder God laughs looking at us. We probably look very funny when we try to lift ourselves up. We probably look funny when we try to brag and think we are larger than life. We probably look hilarious thinking that we are better than others. All these things are nothing compared to what God has done. We are so small in the light of the universe and the Bible says that, ...
God has measured off the heavens with his fingers?" (Isaiah 40:12)
God is very very very very HUGE and we are very very very small.
no wonder that the Psalmist wrote in Psalms 8:
3 When I look at the night sky and see the work of your fingers—
the moon and the stars you set in place—
4 what are mere mortals that you should think about them,
human beings that you should care for them?
"God is very very very very HUGE and we are very very very small."
Psalm 2 is not about how huge God is, or how enormous the universe that he made...
it is about the one will against which no one can withhold. all the "bragging" that human leaders cry about their plans to gain power and control are bound to be frustrated if they go against the one will - and against his anointed.
do not be mistaken, it is not about the size (for you can't measure God) or about works (majesty of the univers) but about THE PERSON OF GOD. we are not called to be simply in awe of what God can do, but to love the person that he is.
i agree..very true!
wow!very good entry..things are very uplifting when we we talk about God...nothing more, nothing less.
David.. that's exactly what I just said.:p
I am merely relating Psalms 2 (God laughing and our bragging) and relating it to how we are to compared to what's out there.
I'm not even trying to measure God. I'm merely stating the facts.
Anyway... thank you for your comments.
To Nyl.. very true. thanks for your comment
i visualized the analogy using a quarter and the northern america...
i've always had low self-esteem, not sure why - i know i shouldn't...but it made me feel small