Oct 29 - Psalm 8:3-4

When I look at the night sky

and see the work of your fingers --

the moon and the stars

you have set in place --

what are mortals that

you should think of us?

Psalm 8:3-4

 

We live in the Milky Way Galaxy. How big is it?

 

Imagine our Milky Way as a dinner plate. (It’s basically round and flat like a disc.)

 

Wait … imagine our galaxy as VERY large dinner plate.

 

How big? A dinner plate as big around the earth!

 

Now, if that 7901-mile-wide plate represents our Milky Way Galaxy, then guess how big our sun and our moon would be in comparison: Just a piece of salt (the sun) and a speck of dust (earth) an inch apart on this 7901-mile-wide plate!

 

That’s us. We may be big (in our imaginations), but we’re tiny. Insignificant!

 

Indeed, even our massive galaxy is tiny in respect to the whole universe. How tiny? Imagine our disc-shaped Milky Way as barely the size of one round hub cap in a universe as big as the city of Chicago!

 

Get the point?

 

Well even if that analogy was hard to understand (and it probably was!), the point is this …

 

Our little planet is itsy-bitsy, teeny-tiny.

And you aren’t even a speck of dust

on a grain of salt in the

grand scheme of human history or

the grand expanse of the universe.

 

And yet, you are the most important thing in all creation.

 

How do I know that? Because Christ died for you. As it says in Romans 5:8, “God proves his love for us in that while we still were sinners Christ died for us.”

 

The Psalmist invites us to walk outside. Stand under a starry sky. Be humbled by the massiveness. And then say, “Wow.”

 

And then say, “Thank You.”

 

“What are mortals that you should think of us?” Who am I that you would die for me?

 

In Christ’s Love,

a guy who spells “Thank You”

… W-O-W

 

and who spells “Wow!”

… T-H-A-N-K- -Y-O-U

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 if you placed a grain of sand an eighth of an inch away from a speck of dust. 

 

represent the sun and the earth.