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Wednesday, January 29, 2014

Feel insignificant and at the same time fully alive.


Here is a video to give you a perspective of space.

It is quite regular to feel insignificant in this world. The more we learn about the people on the planet as well as the universe and natural realm therein, we wonder how important are we, really. Our cultre would tell us we are "special" and each one of us is immensely important. The world is the way it is because of me. I can (and do) make a difference.

Are we really that important?

People who are deemed "important" and have many eyes on them are trainwrecks. 
Look at millionaires, people in entertainment, politicians. They more attention concentrated on oneself, the more unhappiness. 

I think feeling insignificant is not a bad thing. I think we need to keep in mind our vulnerability. When we stand on the top of a mountain, or the Grand Canyon and literally are breathless, we are touching something truly eternal within ourselves. - "You've never felt more insignificant, you've never felt more alive." When the attention is off of us and is on something so beautiful, vast, immense, and worth so much more attention than ourselves, that is what we call worship.
Even the hill country was breathtaking. And this is Texas!
And that is what worshiping God is. In light of all the facts, of who we are, and what Jesus has done, we direct every gaze we have towards Him. And that is when we are happiest. Everything else is sub-par. Even earth will pass away. We are already seeing this happen with global warming and pollution. This would not bother us if we were not longing for this breathtaking natural world to go on forever. Indeed at some point the view or experience looses its "special effect" it initially had on us. What more evidence is needed to explain our eternal nature?

Skeptics bring up how insignificant people are quite often, and they do so to refute this idea that God cares about us. Instead, knowing this is true (not because the universe is about us, but because of the nature of God Himself) let's think about this-
If space and all its grandeur is smaller than God (because He has created it), what does that tell us about God's grandeur ?

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