From the greatest to the lowliest
-- all are nothing in his sight.
If you weigh them on the scales,
they are lighter than a puff of air
Psalm 62:9
Have you ever heard the phrase "puffed up"? We brag. We gloat. We exaggerate. We puff ourselves up. Like a blow fish, we want to look bigger (and more important) than we are.
God has a more accurate measure of our substance: "weigh them on the scales, they are lighter than a puff of air."
You are mist. You are vapor. You are temporary. We like to compare ourselves to our co-workers and neighbors. We like to think that we're big news and hot stuff. But more accurately, the standard that really matters is God. And compared to the creator of the universe, you are less substantial than a puff of air.
I'd say, "ouch," but the breath from that "ch"-sound might threaten to blow you away.
In the great expanse of history, you are absolutely inconsequential ... unless you see things from God's eyes.
He loves you enough to die for you. How extraordinary!
On your own, you are a temporary vapor. You gain permanence and true value only when you attach yourself to something eternal and of substance.
So how about it? Are you going to continue to measure yourself in the world's eyes -- as in one molecule of mist more or less than the next guy -- or are you going to going to trust the Creator who turns temporary fog into eternal substance and worth?
In Christ's Love,
a guy who is like the Velveteen Rabbit:
I'm real because I'm loved ... by God
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