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? -Psalm 8:3-4
I see God the most when I look to the ocean. Thinking about how vast it is overwhelms me. Also thinking about the thousands of organisms that live in it that not only are a billion times bigger (or smaller) than me but also can survive and thrive in a part of the world that no human can, blows my mind.
Sometimes (most of the time) I get wrapped up in my little human brain and start to only think about things that revolve around me. “what will I eat for dinner?, when will I get home?, where will I sleep?, etc.” It makes me feel big and important. Actually a lot of the time I feel like the most important person on earth. When things don’t go my way or if I feel neglected or let down I feel like I am owed something. “How could that man push me at a crowded soccer game? How dare someone think its okay for me to sleep on the floor for a month!? I am Ryan Bright and I deserve more!”
But then God throws me in a country like South Africa or Mozambique where the shore line is only miles from where I am staying and it’s almost like He says “Hey girl, let me expand your mind a little bit. Look how big I am. Look at the animals I have created that could swallow you up in one gulp”
Have you ever seen a whale in the ocean? One time my grandparents took my cousin and I to California. We spent one afternoon at a light house. While at the top of the hill I remember looking out over the water and seeing a pod of whales. They looked tiny. The ocean made them look like little jelly beans. But if I would have taken a row boat out to where they were I would have peed my pants at their size.
God made whales. And he made the ocean. Man, actually, how big is He? Can we ever really know? I want to know.
I really love moments like that.
Humbled, feeling small, feels right.
