Me Small, God Big

"Space..." says the introduction to the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, "...is big. Really big.You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the street to the chemist, but that's just peanuts compared to space..."



I've been wandering around on the internet this weekend and I learnt some facts about the bigness of space. Our galaxy, the Milky Way, is 100 billion light-years across. It contains 400 billion stars. It is one of an estimated 170 billion galaxies in the observable universe. And that isn't the end of it. There is thought to be a lot more universe beyond all that, but we can't see it because the light from those stars hasn't reached us yet.

God is bigger even than that enormous universe. He created the universe and everything in it. He knows everything about the universe, even calls the stars by name. God is the maker of all things, seen and unseen. All-powerful, all-knowing. 
He is just amazingly, unimaginably, incomprehensibly BIG.

In comparison, I am very small. I am one person on one planet in one galaxy out of billions. I don't even know if a number exists for how small I am compared to space. When you think about the size of the universe, it's hard not to feel insignificant. 
Surely God has better things to worry about than me.

But that is not what Jesus said. He didn't come to the earth to tell people that they did not matter. If that was the case, He wouldn't have come at all.

What He did say was this:

"Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? Yet not one of them will fall to the ground outside your Father’s care. And even the very hairs of your head are all numbered. So don’t be afraid;

you are worth more than many sparrows."

(Matthew 10:29-31)

Me small, God big. But he cares about my every detail.