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A thousand years in your sight
are like a day that has just gone by,
or like a watch in the night.
Psalm 90:4
New International Version (NIV)
I often have to catch myself when I'm reflecting on life while talking to someone else. I might say something like, "That was a long time ago".
Then I think about God and the whole of creation and eternity. It's tough for a small human mind to put into perspective. When we're kids we might think of something that happened the previous year or sometime when we were younger. The distance in the past might appear to be great to us, but at our young age we only have our own lives to compare events in the passing of time.
As we get older and watch the years go by, see lives begin and end, and witness the parade of time pass before our eyes and minds, we gain more of an idea of what time is. Yet do we ever get a true grasp on the vastness of it all?
The world and all the people in it is far bigger than any of us will ever experience. The media gives us a glimpse of much of what is out there. Some of us have been fortunate enough to afford to travel to see some of these things first hand. But there is always more to see and learn. We never experience everything.
We look into the skies and marvel at the mysteries of infinite space. Science continues to provide us new information about the universe, yet every new bit of knowledge is an opening for new questions.
It's a big world. It's a bigger universe. It takes a really big God to bring this into existence. Our God is a big God.
Then I think about God and the whole of creation and eternity. It's tough for a small human mind to put into perspective. When we're kids we might think of something that happened the previous year or sometime when we were younger. The distance in the past might appear to be great to us, but at our young age we only have our own lives to compare events in the passing of time.
As we get older and watch the years go by, see lives begin and end, and witness the parade of time pass before our eyes and minds, we gain more of an idea of what time is. Yet do we ever get a true grasp on the vastness of it all?
The world and all the people in it is far bigger than any of us will ever experience. The media gives us a glimpse of much of what is out there. Some of us have been fortunate enough to afford to travel to see some of these things first hand. But there is always more to see and learn. We never experience everything.
We look into the skies and marvel at the mysteries of infinite space. Science continues to provide us new information about the universe, yet every new bit of knowledge is an opening for new questions.
It's a big world. It's a bigger universe. It takes a really big God to bring this into existence. Our God is a big God.
Acts 17:24
New International Version (NIV)
And if we were meant to understand it all then we would have been given the insight into its vastness but we weren't meant to understand. That's how I see it, anyway.
ReplyDeleteComplexities make anything seem bigger. And yet, God is bigger, still.
ReplyDelete“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,” declares the Lord. “As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts." Isaiah 55:8-9
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