I started thinking about this again...you know the "Bigness" of this universe and the smallness of us...
Do you remember the Dr. Seuss story
Horton Hears a Who? Or
How the Grinch Stole Christmas? if you remember from your childhood or parenthood or grandparenthood!! You've no doubt read the stories more than once! Horton heard a Who! It was a little tiny creature who lived on a speck of dust! I have always thought what an imagination! BUT remember the Bible says "there is nothing at all new under the sun"! Eccl. 1:9 CLV
SO WHAT?? We are but tiny creatures living on a speck of dust ourselves!! When you think of how small our planet is in the vastness of space and how utterly invisible we are out there!! It boggles the mind to think about how insignificant we really are compared to the size of the universe! How is it that God who created all the trillions of stars, planets and whatever else is out there actually even thought to create us in the first place! What is man, that thou art mindful of him? Ps. 8:4
Sorry, but it is just so amazing that we even exist! Much less that the God of the whole thing, the Creator of it all would actually come to this little speck of dust and consider us! Not only that, but suffer humiliation, hatred, AND death at our hands! AND then in the END still loves enough to save us ANYWAY??
AND then decide, "naw If they don't love me I'll just throw them into a big old pit of burning, churning fire and burn them forever!! Muahahaha!"
Whoever believes in the burning pit of fire and brimstone surely hasn't considered what kind of God we really have! Are you kidding? God could have just destroyed every last shred of evidence that man ever even existed in the first place! He could have obliterated the earth as soon as Adam and Eve rebelled, He could have destroyed it quicker than He created it!!
Have you ever worked with clay? If you don't like how it's turning out you just squash it in your hands and start over!! When you think of it REALLY..Who would EVER be good and obedient enough to save anyway?? How prideful and evil we are to think that God would actually burn some of us for eternity in a horrible lake of fire and brimstone without tossing all our worthless butts into that same fire!!
Ok I know, I'm rambling...I'm done!
Kathy