Has something so small, meant everything to you? Well of course, this happens to everyone. And later on we can’t believe that such little things affected us. But we get that way everyday.
For example:
I could be on the court, playing in a basketball game. And weather I win or not, at that moment, it’s all I care about. Right? It doesn’t matter if there are people going to hell, dieing, and starving all over the world.
or
-If the Dow drops tomorrow, that’s all that matters.
-If we don’t win this game, that’s all that matters.
-If I don’t get the raise, that’s all that matters.
-If this person gets elected, that’s all that matters.
-If I lose my house, that’s all that matters.
-If I lose my job, that’s all that matters.
You know, I mean we focus on these small things, and forget about the important things. And suddenly these things become everything to us, and sometimes the best thing we can do is take a bigger view of life. And not think that one little thing is everything.
So we are going to start from the beginning.
Genesis 1:1
1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
Okay, so there was a time, when we didn’t exist. Everything was fine, without us.
Genesis 1:10
10 God called the dry ground “land,” and the gathered waters he called “seas.” And God saw that it was good.
So, as God created things, he saw that it was good. Everything was good.
Genesis 1:31
31 God saw all that he had made, and it was very good…
God was saying, Wow, that’s really good. And it says that when God was done on the sixth day, he saw that everything that he had made, and behold it was very good.
Okay, why was it very good?
Psalm 19
1 The heavens declare the glory of God;
the skies proclaim the work of his hands.
In other words he says you as a human being can just look up at the sky, look at the clouds, and look at the stars, or look at the universe through a telescope, and you see this declares the glory of God.
Romans 1:20
20For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse.
He says ever since he created this world, his invisible qualities, and his devine nature could clearly be seen through the things made, so men are without excuse. Because what he made is so complex, that no person on this Earth has a reason not to believe in him(God).
I mean you can just look at the stars, and go “Shut up, no way.” How in the world does this work. How in the world do I just live on this little ball, that the core of this Earth is magma/lava fire stuff, and yet the covering is water, and yet it spins and it’s a circle it spins, and we don’t fly anywhere, and we fly around the sun, and all that stuff. And you’ve got these galaxies, that are just going forever.
He says that any human being can look around and go “Wow, this is good, this is so good!”
Like the sun, this ball of fire, that’s 93 million miles away, I mean, Wow, that’s just nuts!
You see, when God created everything, he goes, “Wow, this is really good, and this shows off what I can do, it declares my Glory.”
Now when God was creating this, he does something different, when he creates you and I, when he creates human beings it’s different from the plants and the animals because in Genesis Chapter 1 verse 26.
Genesis 1:26
26 Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.”
When he makes man, it says, God says, “Let us make man in our image after our likeness,” Now remember this is the beginning, okay, And here’s God the father, God the son, God the Holy Spirit, and going you know what, lets make man in our own image.
Now isn’t that awesome, that somehow, I am created in the image of God, we are created in the image of God. Now that’s good stuff.
So I am going to challenge everyone who reads this blog. Maybe the best thing we can do is take a bigger view of life. Just stop, and think about how Great our God is, and how everything on this Earth declares his Glory. Just take a moment, stop being caught up in everything around you, and Just Think about it.
Well that’s about it for now everyone.
Thanks
Peace
God Bless
Dillon
