SMALL BUT VALUABLE

“…I tend to forget who I am, especially who I am in relation to God. I get out of touch with my size and importance in relation to His. I get so involved in the particulars of my own small world that I unconsciously begin to view myself as the leading character in my own little soap opera, rather than as a supporting character in God’s great drama of life. I find myself living as though I were a totally autonomous being in control of my own destiny, rather than the child of a loving God living by His grace.

It is very humbling to acknowledge my real size in the great scheme of things, to admit that, like those bits of broken glass in the kaleidoscope, my life is really quite small. In my prayer times, I have sometimes been guilty of de-emphasizing the awesome majesty of God and concentrating instead on how lovingly accessible He is to me – a much more comfortable perspective. Viewing Him as my own personal “prayer partner” rather than the high and mighty Ruler of the universe has allowed me during those times to operate as though I were in control of Him rather than the other way around…

We never really know who we are until we see our size and importance in relation to His. David got a glimpse of this in Psalm 8, and it “blew him away”…

Coming to grips with the fact of my smallness in relation to God’s enormity is destined to be depressing unless I grasp, as David did, that God does care for me – very much. I am small, yes. But I am assured all through Scripture that small things matter tremendously to God.”