How Great is our God?

As I preview this landscape I see what a small drop in the bucket I really am. This does not even touch the expanse of space and all that it contains, yet it does however put some perspective to our littleness...is that a word? As I view the moring and see the lesser light in the sky even as the sun is arising, I think of the Psalm, "LORD, what is man that you regard him, or the son of man that you think of him? Man is like a breath; his days are like a passing shadow." This really should put us in our place as we see God's Glories in creation. May we find our joy in Him alone in that very low spot where worship takes place.

Piper offers a very familiar and mind blowing description that puts things in perspective.

"A brief look at all creation"

"Our planet earth is a small part of a solar system that is 7.3 billion miles across. This solar system is a little speck in the galaxy called the Milky Way which is 80,000 light years across. A light year is how far light travels in a year. Light travels at 186,000 miles per second. So our galaxy is 480,000 trillion miles across. The nearest star to us, Alpha Centauri would take 4.3 years to get to traveling at the speed of light. The nearest neighboring galaxy would take 2.2 million years to get to at the speed of light. All creation will be set free into the glorious liberty of the children of God. It is yours, and you are Christ's and Christ is God's. God has revealed these things to us, not so that we will fall in love with stars, but so that we will see something of the magnitude of his love. See how great a love the Father has bestowed upon us, that we should be called children of God. And if children, then heirs—heirs of all things. Not for the sake of all things, but for the sake of comprehending the love of God."