Monday Meditation: On Center Stage

 "When I consider 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, the son of man, that you care for him?"
(Psalm 8:3-4)

Capturing All That Glitters In Galaxies
 With NASA's Webb Telescope

Picture courtesy/NASA

When we look around at the vastness of the universe and we consider the
statistics and the figures that the astronomers give us about their millions of
galaxies, about our world being just a little fragment, a little speck of dust 
in the totality of the universe, surely we can feel so small,
so insignificant, so weak and helpless.

And yet these beautiful words that I read reveal that God doesn't measure
everything by size or by dimension, that there's another scale of values with God.
And that in the scale of values, we, His human creatures, are extremely valuable.
In fact, the Lord Jesus Himself told us that one human soul is worth more in
God's sight than the whole universe.  Isn't that a word of encouragement 
 and comfort? We are not just a little speck somewhere in space.

In many ways we are the very objects of God's special concern and care.
He cares about us.  He loves us. He knows our weakness and our frailty,
but He does not despise us.  He does not reject us.  He has a special place
 in His universe for man, His creation, and you can find that place
if you seek Him and you can know the comfort of His love.

"On Center Stage"
Derek Vaughn Prince
(1915-2003)
American Bible teacher