Live For God, Live For Love

Psalm 90:3-4“You turn man to destruction, And say, “Return, O children of men.” 4 For a thousand years in Your sight Are like yesterday when it is past, And like a watch in the night.”

 

Awaken to God, allow your heart to be opened to God, trust that God has made you, and though we are small, God gives us hope in Jesus Christ. This faith is so big that even the faith the size of a mustard seed can move a mountain. God is so great He paints a masterpiece daily. We are a part of that painting, and we often forget how big God is, and how very small we are. When we consider the vastness of our universe how expansive it is, and yet how perfectly it all fits together how can we not think there is a great creator? From the perfect spin rate of the earth, to the perfect tilt, to the perfect distance from the sun, and at only 500 seconds for the suns warmth to touch us here on earth, we are blessed at the wondrous expanse of the cosmos.

 

You are a tiny blip of dust in the sunbeam. In a quote by Carl Sagan“Look again at that dot. That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every “superstar,” every “supreme leader,” every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there–on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.” God is great, God is perfect and it’s not for us to figure everything out. When we realize how small we are we can realize what God can do. When we are smaller then a grain of sand and God is so sovereign we can realize we were never meant to travel this life alone. A journey around the sun, 584 million miles, at almost 900 spinning miles per hour, and we think we are ordinary. God loves us tiny little creatures, He cherishes us so much that Jesus was born to fix, and restore our very nature of our selfish sins. Jesus Christ hung on a tree to show us how important we are. Jesus Christ had a chance and in a perfect act of love, no matter the pain, no matter the humiliation, the matter the temptations, remained on that cross to take the full wrath of the father, and that makes us extraordinary. We are small yes, but God knows every tiny bit of who we are and God knows each one of us individually. In my life, which is nothing compared to eternity with God, Jesus knows me by name. With so much in this universe Jesus Christ wants more than for me to be ordinary, and for that find the joy to awaken you, the blood that saves you, and find that at least for me, the universal sacrifice took me from small, to extraordinary.

 

God came to our blue little marble in the vast expanse of the cosmos to rescue us, to give us a chance, a single chance of something so special, so wonderful that to just follow the son, so that we may be gifted, inherit the kingdom of God. This God who created perfection, created every single one of us to be vastly different from the next person, a breath of life to live in a relationship with God. 1 Corinthians 10:31 (NKJV)31 “Therefore, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.” No matter what we do, we do it all for the glory of God because God will be around long after I return to dust, He was here long before I was thought of, and I trust that a God big enough to paint the cosmos pays attention to a little creature like me.

 

I hope that I can find favor in God, draw in God’s wisdom, and be filled with a sense of peace in the vastness of chaos that is this life. What are you living for, that our lives have become all about ‘me’ and we think we are big stuff on this blue ball floating in the vastness of space? Knowing I am small, and God is big, I feel comfortable knowing that it isn’t about me, and I never have to take this journey alone. I know that Jesus Christ is my savior, my hope in a world that seems so dark. I know that when I live according to God’s rule, and living for God’s glory, that I may be forgiven of my selfish sinful desires. I know that no matter how big the universe is, God came to this tiny blue marble to save us because no matter how amazingly small we are, God knows my name. That is love, and that’s the kind of love we should share with everyone we meet because there is no greater gift than that of love, unconditional, unselfish love. This life is a miracle everyday, and the miracle is not that we are living on a perfectly planned planet, in a perfect spot in the universe, the miracle is that God wants to go with on our every day journey, and we deserve to do more then give a nod to God, but our whole, undivided heart is for God. How wonderful a thought, how wonderful a sentiment, that God loves and adores little ol’ me.