Some people see God in beaches and
sunsets, others in mountains and you have to say that that is amazing. But
sometimes we have to step back and really discover how great He and His love
for us is and how small we, and our problems, are.
If
you look at a picture of Earth you realize that we are pretty small. Now let’s
take a few more steps back (more like quadrillions and quadrillions of steps)
and take a picture of our galaxy. If you look at our galaxy and ask, “Where’s
our solar system?” The answer would be, “You can’t see it!” Our galaxy is
100,000 light-years in diameter, that’s 590,000,000,000,000 miles, or 3
quadrillion 115 trillion 200 billion feet! Now do you feel small?
How
about when I say that we don’t even know how big the universe is? Scientists
refer to the studied universe as the known universe, because every time we make
a bigger telescope we find out that the universe is bigger than we thought it
was. We can see God’s hand all over it, it is beautiful! God can hold the
entire universe in His hand, Isaiah 40:12 says: “Who has measured the waters in the hollow of His
hand, or with the breadth of His hand marked off the heavens?” I bet that if
you looked at the universe either the Milky Way galaxy wouldn’t be visible, or
it would be a speck.
The
Milky Way galaxy is a spiral shape; we are between two arms towards the outer
part of the galaxy, so we are in the perfect position to study the universe.
Science is the study of God’s creation so we can worship him better, and God
gave us this huge universe (yet small compared to him) so we can see and learn
about his beautiful and awesome power. Luke 10:17 says: the seventy-two
returned with joy and said, “Lord, even the demons submit to us in your name”.
So even the demons are smart enough to fear God.
If God can hold the universe in His hand, then
what are we compared to Him? Yet God still loves us and lowered His Son down to
our level and allowed Him to be killed by us and for our sins, and whenever a
single one of us develops a relationship with Him He throws a big party in
heaven just because that one, tiny person is saved, even though He doesn’t need
to. We have no effect on Him, He could’ve just given up on us stubborn humans
before the flood, but He loves us so much that He made a way for us sinful,
tiny, particles to have eternal life with Him, by having His Son pay the price of our sin, so we
don’t have to.
Most of us know that Jesus died on the cross for us, but He
didn’t simply die for our sins, He was tortured for our sins. He was beaten,
mocked, and flogged severely with
whips that had four to ten lashes with balls on the end, and attached to those
balls were spikes; it is also possible that those spikes had barbs on them.
Those lashes cut Him severely. The spikes dug into His tissue and muscles, some
of His internal organs were exposed by the time they
were done with Him. He received nothing to ease the pain, and every time his
body tried to pass out they woke him up. This went on for hours before they
actually hung Him on the cross. When they did hang Him on the cross, they made Him
carry that extremely heavy cross up a hill, where they nailed Him to the cross
(and those nails were not little finishing nails, they were short steaks). On
the top of the cross they hung a sign which read in three different languages “Jesus of Nazareth, king of the Jews.” To
hold the cross upright, they pulled the top up by rope, and the bottom would
drop into a hole, the force of it would have jerked Him and so the nails tore
even more of the flesh in His wrists and feet. God turned his back on his own
son. Then, they stabbed Him with a spear. The sinners on either side of him
endured less torture.
When Jesus died, the temple curtain was torn in two, and
there was an earthquake. Many bodies of holy people were raised to life, and
many people saw them afterwards. Some of the people that saw this shouted:
“Surely He was the Son of God!” Three days later Jesus Himself rose from the dead.
God did all of this for us, even though we are so tiny and we
have no effect on Him, He simply loves us. That is a God kind of Love.
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