Today, I started a new book called "Crazy Love" by Francis Chan. In the first chapter, he directed me to the book's website,http://www.crazylovebook.com/, so I could watch a video called "The Awe Factor of God." Go take a look and then come back here, if you want. If you don't, I'm going to spill the beans now.
The video includes transition photos of our earth from on the surface to 100 million light years away. In each transition, I was reminded of how large God is and how small my little place in the world really is. Now that's cool. I'm wondering who got their iPhone 100 million light years away to take the picture! God is a huge God and He sits over way more than we can see or even imagine. Francis's words on the site are "When I first saw those images, I had to worship. I didn't want to speak to or share it with anyone. I just wanted to sit quietly and admire the creator." So, I thought that was what I should do. At my desk, in my freshly painted "man's office." I reached into the silence to worship the Creator. In about 5 seconds, no lie, a sound penetrated my silent worship. A sound that I believe came from the Creator. A sound that was so close to my heart that I couldn't help but hear it and hear it clearly.
"MMMMaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!"
My son, Graysen, was yelling out to find his mother. That sound brought a smile to my face. As I sat and tried to ponder the "awe of God" in the bigness of God, He reminded me that He is right here in the little things, and in the end it's His bigness that makes the little things in my life huge. That cry from Graysen signaled to my heart a challenge to see His image, not in the stars or the suns or the galaxies, but in a 2 year old boy. The image of our Creator does not rest in the created earth, but in humanity. I am more in awe of listening to Rhonda read a story to Graysen than I am in the mountains of Colorado. "Let us make human beings in our image, in our likeness...So God created human beings in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them." Genesis 1:26, 27 (TNIV).
Wow...created in God's image!!!! That's people, not places. That's people, not things. That's people. That's people!
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(I can't express it any better than this, so I have excerpted a passage from John Eldredge. )
We all—men and women—were created in the image of God. Fearfully and wonderfully made, fashioned as living icons of the bravest, wisest, most stunning Person who ever lived. Those who have ever seen him fell to their knees without even thinking about it, as you find yourself breathless before the Grand Canyon or the Alps or the sea at dawn. That glory was shared with us; we were, in Chesterton’s phrase, “statues of God walking about in a Garden,” endowed with a strength and beauty all our own. All that we ever wished we could be, we were—and more. We were fully alive. (Waking the Dead, 13-14)
We've forgotten who we are (I feel a little bit like Mufasa from the Lion King saying that). Yet there is something powerful in reflecting on the fact that God created us in His image. Not to be prideful about it, because it is a glory that was bestowed, not achieved. And through Christ, God desires to restore us all to our original glory.
"Christ in you, the hope of glory"
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