Is Our God Too Great For Us?

David the Psalmist and poet looked up into the night sky and was amazed. Even with his unaided eye, he marveled at the heavenly bodies of sun, moon and stars. Then he marveled that God, who made all that, could care for people, small seemingly significant in the scale of the universe. Yet he realize that God cared for him.

Today we are awed even more when we learn of the magnificence of the universe, and the sub- microscopic elements of nature as well. Scientists say that there may be 400 billion stars in just the galaxy our earth is a part of. Furthermore, they estimate there maybe 107 billion galaxies, or groups of stars. When they consider how long it takes for light to travel to earth from some of these stars they suggest the universe may be 13.8 years old. As I hear this from scientists, whether they make only estimates or what, I sometimes have to wonder how he could care about little me, an ant, if that much, in his total scope of creation. One children's video we used to have of Jonah's experience explaining to his ship mates that his God was the creator of all things; they said, “You mean one God created all this?” The microscopic world, we know, is just as unfathomable.

I have a feeling God does nor want us to get hung up with all his wonders so that we have a hard time to really believe in him, that he has a personal care for us. Perhaps he want us to only know some part of who he is. I suppose that is why he sent Jesus, his representative, to earth for us to learn what he really wants us to know. Jesus called God “Father”. That is a part God really wants us to know. In nature we see that he is also much more, and so we will worship him, besides just asking favors of this creator-Parent.

Some time ago, I saw a newborn child, less than a day old, my first great-grandson. He was nestling there in the lap of his grandfather, eyes quite wide open when we first saw him. He seemed to feel that there were people around him. But as we passed him around, he closed his eyes and went into a deep sleep, it seemed. He was loved, contend, totally unconcerned that he was the center of attention. Nothing could disturb his rest in those loving arms that cradled him. This little fellow has much to learn about these people around him. But he doesn't care about that now. He is just totally content, being loved.

Can we be that content, not worrying, about all that goes around us, resting also in the strong arms of our heavenly Father? If we knew all about him, we might wonder how he has time for us. We might think he has too many other things to be concerned about- perhaps a thousand earths with people like us, or a million. If he has to covers a million light-years of space, is he also near to each of us? But the child does not wonder about all his people. He feels the kind, warm arms of love around him. Perhaps it is good we do not know too much, or all about God- just that he is totally in control of our little world. That is what he most wants us to know, and that we should let all mankind know that about him, our loving Father.