All humanity has seen it; mortals gaze on it from afar. How great is God—beyond our understanding! The number of his years is past finding out. -Job 36:25 & 26
I don’t know how an astronaut feels when he goes upward. How will he feel when he looks at the Earth in its ever-vast glory? What does he think when he watches the incredible amounts of space junk that bluff to threaten the Earth? I bet he must be wowed and amazed-or at least, he must be calculating how, when, and where the old Soviet space junk will fall in the Earth. (Yeah, I bet he’ll do that as a hobby.)
That’s the same way I feel when I look at an airplane window. The cars and the houses look like ants pestering our feet. The oceans turn into vast and endless expanses, quietly mixing with the blue reflection of the sky. The clouds look like cotton candy –mind you, a little stormy weather won’t hurt. Now that I’m thinking of it, I feel so powerful! (yeah!), yet so tiny at the same time. Even more tiny than powerful, I’m afraid to say.
When I look at the stars, and the moon, and the skies and the earth below, doesn’t that make you think: “God made all of THIS!?” Of course, we know God made this Earth and all of its glory. But when we see death, terror, pain and darkness stalking us at our sides, it’s easy to lose track of the Maker.
Someone dies of a horrible disease. Someone is shot and killed only for being in the wrong moment, in the wrong time. Someone desperate enough to fight for the love of their life is forced to lose his dignity. All around us is full of destruction, destruction, destruction.
And we ask: God made THIS Earth??
Yes. Yes He did. He made this Earth, just for us.
He knew how everything would go wrong even before we felt things going wrong. He knew how man would betray Him; the glory of His creation would stab a deep wound in His heart. He knew how our everything will never reach Him, not with our dirty rags.
But that’s the amazing part of the God I know: He will make everything in His power to point us back to the skies, back to the love in our hearts.