Grains of Sand

“ O Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! ” (Psalm 8:1) It’s hard to tell this dull, foggy, rainy morning, but yes, “ When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, what is man that you are mindful of him, and the son of man that you care for him? ” (8:3, 4) Cats make themselves seem twice their size when faced with an enemy. There are fish that do the same thing. Apes beat their chests and roar. Be impressed, they say. Be warned, they imply. And then we get to man who doesn’t need an enemy to puff him up—it just seems to happen naturally. We like being “larger than life,” to impress, to be that “big frog” in our little ponds. The psalmist kind of puts us in our places here. In the light of God’s creation, we are pretty insignificant. In the light of the majesty of God Himself, we don’t even appear on the radar. And yet, in awe, the psalmist proclaims that despite this, God is “ mindful ” of us and car...

“ The earth is the Lord’s, and everything in it, the world, and all who live in it ” —Psalm 24:1, NIV. Love it all, care for it all, respect it all, admire it all, appreciate it all, because it all belongs to Him. Love them all, care for them all, respect them all, admire them all, appreciate them all, because they all belong to Him. At times our vision gets clouded by the obvious, what we see—and perhaps dislike—at first glance.. But when we look "behind the scenes" so to speak, and realize the Source of all that we see, our perspective and our attitude may need to change.

“ Yours, O Lord, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the majesty and the splendor, for everything in heaven and earth is yours ” —1 Chronicles 29:11, NIV When man took his first step, he was charged by God with the responsibility to look after all that God had created. Genesis 2:15 tells us: “ The Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it ” (NIV). By the time we get to Paul’s letter to the Romans we realize the effect that sin has had, not only on mankind, but on the creation that God entrusted to him. Paul writes: “ The creation waits in eager expectation for the sons of God to be revealed. For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the glorious freedom of the children of God. We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth r...