Thursday, May 9, 2013

Outer Space

I am afraid of outer space.  It's just so huge and it legitimately scares me to look up at the sky when it's dark on a clear night and you can see all the stars.  It used to be a comfort, but now it's frightening.  And I think I just figured out why.  Rather, God revealed it to me.
Every day, we encounter things that God and only God could have created.  The grass, sunshine, our very own skin cells (yes, biologically our parents made us, but who made the parts necessary to make us to begin with?).  But those things, a lot of the time, our hidden by man made things, and in a sense it can- not lessen- but distract us from God's glory in His creation with those things. So looking at the grass, covered in potted plants, lawn ornaments, people, etc., doesn't take my breath away usually.
But we look up at the sky and see nothing but universe, totally uninterrupted by man made things, except for the occasional minuscule plane.  It makes an airplane look minuscule.  Let that sink in for a second.
So I look up, and there is no distraction, no way to ease myself into it, just the complete vastness of what God can and did do. He made it, He is bigger than the huge sky and He will always be that way.  Sometimes this frightens me, too, but I don't know what I have to be afraid of.  God has loved me right from the start.  And I know I am His, even though I am a hypocrite and don't always act like it.  And now the sky feels comforting, because the One who holds my life in His hands is great enough that He made the sky.

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