Memories of A Beloved Speck
“God stretches the northern sky over empty space and hangs the earth on nothing... The foundations of heaven tremble;” – Job 26:7.
As a teenager, I remember driving with friends out into the country to view the starry night that was unaffected by city lights. Lying on the hood of the car and looking up at the great expanse, it hit me how tiny I was compared to the enormity of the universe.
It was mind boggling. To realize my relative insignificance, fragility and powerlessness was humbling, and more than a little bit frightening.
We can’t sustain than level of awe forever. Eventually the stark terror of the big picture is replaced by the comfort of our tiny microcosm, here on the tip of the relative toothpick where we live.
Have you ever had an experience like that—a brief revelatory moment of awe and wonder?
Nothing is impossible for our unfathomable God. So often we casually offer our prayers before the Lord. We become so accustomed to the habit that we can forget exactly who we are praying to.
It isn’t a larger, smarter and more powerful version of ourselves we are addressing, but the One who imagined the universe where one had never been before. He created time and spoke the universe into being. Out of nothing came everything.
The entire universe fit neatly in the palm of His hand. He flung the stars across the heavens and set the planets in their courses. Isaiah recounts,
"It is I who made the earth, and created man upon it I stretched out the heavens with My hands And I ordained all their host.” – Isaiah 45:12
Of the billions upon billions of stars, He not only created them, but knows each one. He calls them by name (Ps 147:4).
“...what are mere mortals that you should think about them, human beings that you should care for them?” – Psalm 8:4
Yet He imagined you.
“Long before he laid down earth’s foundations, he had us in mind, had settled on us as the focus of his love, to be made whole and holy by his love. Long, long ago he decided to adopt us into his family through Jesus Christ.” – Ephesians 1:4-5 MSG
It is simultaneously humbling and honoring to realize that we are mere specks who have access to God! Our problems feel massive, but even His presence causes them to wither. The psalmist writes,
“The hills melted like wax at the presence of the LORD” - Psalm 97:5.
Father, we come before You. We ask for a revelation of who You are, and a reminder of the magnitude of what You have done, and then the size of our struggles.
We do not mind feeling small for a moment, when it is the same revelation that reminds us of your power, love and ability to fight our every battle and solve our every problem.
“The heavens are declaring the glory of God, and their expanse shows the work of his hands.” — Psalm 19:1
Increase our faith to believe You for the impossible. Renew our minds until the miraculous appears not only possible, but logical, even inevitable.
Lord, we invite You into our struggles. May what feels so insurmountable to us, melt like wax before You. You are all powerful and cower from NOTHING. Your fearlessness is contagious, and we catch it in Your presence.
We invite You into our day, our joys, struggles and pain. And we ask You to be Lord of it all. In Jesus’ Name ❤️
Dear friend, you have not been forgotten by God. You were not a mistake. HE planned you. He knows the number of hairs on your head, selected the color of your eyes and skin, painted every freckle and created your fingerprints from His own.
A God of such enormous power, yet such gentle care, could not forget a child He passionately willed into being. You can trust Him. Why not place your struggles in His loving and capable hands? 💡
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