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Macro God, Micro Me

Psalm 8:3-4 from The Message says:

 

I look up at your macro-skies, dark and enormous, your handmade sky-jewelry,

Moon and stars mounted in their settings.

Then I look at my micro-self and wonder,

Why do you bother with us?

Why take a second look our way?

 

I love to lie outside on a clear, starry night and ponder the vastness of the universe. Most of the stars we see are suns of other solar systems. Our galaxy, the Milky Way, has approximately 200 billion stars with solar systems. Consider that number – the Milky Way has 200,000,000,000 stars with solar systems. That’s a HUGE number. If you spent a lifetime, say 90 years, visiting all those solar systems, you would have to race to 70 different systems every second – 70 solar systems every second of every minute of every hour of every day of every year for 90 years! And that’s just one galaxy, never mind the billions of galaxies out there. My mind spins considering how grand the universe is.

 

And yet, our solar system is a relatively small system on the fringes of the Milky Way; a galaxy that is in a far corner of the universe. Earth is one of the smaller planets in our solar system and there really is no significance to our planet other than it can sustain life. So why would God create such an overwhelming universe that and put me in a tiny corner of it? To let me know how enormous He is and how insignificant I am. But even though I am only a speck of dust, He loved me so much that He sent His Son to die a cruel death for me. Amazing love, how can it be, that you my King should die for me?