In Awe of Him!

      In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Genesis 1:1 

        “How big is God?” was yesterday’s question. He is big, bigger than we can create words to describe. Today let’s consider another question: “How small is God?” God’s creation is massive beyond description, and yet…also tiny beyond imagination. Consider, for example, the following scientist’s description of a single-cell: (it has) Artificial languages and their decoding systems, memory banks for information storage and retrieval, elegant control systems regulating the automated assembly of parts and components, error fail-safe and proof-reading devices utilized for quality control, assembly processes involving the principle of prefabrication and modular construction…and a capacity not equaled in any of our own most advanced machines, for it would be capable of replicating its entire structure within a matter of a few hours. (From The Way of A Cell by Franklin Harold)

        And these single-cells are microscopic, not visible to the naked eye. The human body is made up of over 80 trillion single cells of all different types and specialties. And each of those 80 trillion cells are indescribably complex little factories of life! And it gets smaller: because a typical cell takes 10 million atoms to build. How small must an atom be?

         How small is God? As big as He is big, is as small as He is small! Please remember, we are not equating God with His creation. He is the creator, separate from His creation, eternal and self-existing, who spoke all things, great and small, into existence! How great is our God!

        And we have not yet approached the greatest example of how small our great God is willing to become. He was willing to become an embryo implanted in the womb of a teenage girl named Mary. How small did Jesus the human begin, how many cells, what stage of development…we don’t know exactly. But wow how small was God the Son! And that isn’t the smallest He became. As it says in Philippians 2:

        Make your own attitude that of Christ Jesus who, existing in the form of God, did not consider equality with God as something to be used for His own advantage. Instead He emptied Himself by assuming the form of a slave, taking on the likeness of men. And when He had come as a man in His external form He humbled Himself by becoming obedient to the point of death—even to death on a cross. Philippians 2:5-8 

Lord, every time I consider something new about You I am more in awe of Who You are! Out of this awe please guide me in making you First in all things!