I know that doesn't make much sense, but I'll explain.
I was in the beautiful and highly unpopulated addition of Honeysuckle today, walking and running (yes, running, although very sporadically, I might add), when I just felt the holiness of God's creation. It is very large with lots of trees and fields out there. It made me feel so small.
Then, as I began to think of it on a lager scale, I realized that this wonderful addition was minuscule compared to the universe that God created. Heck, it's small compared to the rest of Indiana. And I'm even smaller.
How can it be that God can love me when I'm so small? It's incredible, really. I described this moment as strangely familiar and enlightening because it's not like I've never thought about this before. But, sometimes God has a way of speaking to us in the familiar.
Not only was I thinking about this, but also about other people. In that addition there were probably a total of twenty other people. A very small number compared to six billion. But, as I said before, God loves each and every one of them as much as the other. How can He be so unbiased? Sometimes I have trouble loving certain people; I'll be the first to admit that. Yet God loves all of us the same. Not one more than the other.
It is just so hard to wrap my mind around.
I'm reading this book, Desiring God, by John Piper. I'm not very far, but it is already modifying my perspective on God. Mainly that our purpose in life is to glorify Him, and His purpose is to be glorified. Vague, I know, but I'm sure there'll be more here in the future.
Friends, this summer has led to a lot of heart changes. One that I am really working on is having unconditional love like God.
For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Romans 8:38-40
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