Meditation 14

Psalm 8 – “LORD, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! You have set your glory in the heavens. Through the praise of children and infants you have established a stronghold against your enemies, to silence the foe and the avenger. When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, what is mankind that you are mindful of them, human beings that you care for them? You have made them a little lower than the angels and crowned them with glory and honor. You made them rulers over the works of your hands; you put everything under their feet: all flocks and herds, and the animals of the wild, the birds in the sky, and the fish in the sea, all that swim the paths of the seas. LORD, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth!”
Isa 40:22 – “He sits enthroned above the circle of the earth, and its people are like grasshoppers. He stretches out the heavens like a canopy, and spreads them out like a tent to live in.”

Sometimes I just need to sit down alone with the Lord and keep my mouth shut. There are time when the more I ramble, the more me focused I become. I love this Psalm as it helps me keep a proper perspective on me and God. My image of God (the picture in my head) is the primary basis for my worship. If I get to big in my own mind my worship of God suffers, therefore I need to be reminded of my smallness. I would like to give you some analogies of the size of our solar system. So, if our solar system were scaled down to be the size of a period on your computer monitor, then the galaxy would be about 50 miles in diameter. Now, if it takes years for our fastest ships to get to Saturn which is like going from the center of the period to the edge, how long would it take to travel 50 miles?

Another scientist put it this way: consider our galaxy, just ours, and imagine a perfectly smooth glass pavement on which the finest speck can be seen. Then shrink our sun from 865,00 miles in diameter to only two feet and place a ball on the pavement to represent the sun. Step off 164 feet to represent proportionately the first planet, Mercury, and put down a tiny mustard seed. Go another 120 feet and for Venus put down a BB. Go about 156 feet further and put down a green pea representing earth. Step off about 216 feet and for Mars put down a pinhead. Sprinkle around some fine dust for the asteroids, then go about 1576 feet and put down an orange for Jupiter. After 2000 feet put down a golf ball for Saturn. Now—over 4000 feet, a marble for Uranus. Another 4700 feet and you get to Neptune. Put down a cherry. We have gone 2 ½ miles and haven’t even discussed Pluto. Now on a surface 5 miles across we have a seed, a BB, a pea, pinhead, some dust, an orange, golf ball, marble and a cherry. Guess how far we would have to go on this scale before we could put down another 2-foot ball to represent the nearest star? 6,720 miles before we would arrive at that star. Miles. And that is just the first star among millions in one galaxy. All of these bodies are perfectly synchronized and the most accurate timepiece known to man (Swindol, Come Before Winter, p. 294f.).

Amazing! The God Who created all that, stepped out of His existence and stepped into ours (green pea) to die on a cross for our sin, to give us the opportunity to call Him father and share eternity with Him. No wonder David asked in wonder, “Why do you care about humans at all?” (Ps. 8—CEV). In the big picture of the universe… we are oh so small!!! which is what makes Psalm 8 and the incarnation and cross of Jesus so significant!!!