it really is a crazy Love.
So I just started reading Crazy Love by Francis Chan and I’m only a few pages in but God’s already been rocking me with his incredible, incredible majesty.
Watching this literally put everything in perspective. Of course, I knew we, humans, are so small in comparison to this vast world but seriously, think about it:
We as humans cannot even be compared to specks of dust. Focus on yourself for a while and then zoom out to the cityscapes of San Diego. Go further and zoom out to the state, then the nation, then the entire world. You are not even a pinpoint on the map anymore. But that’s not it. Zoom out even further to the solar system where you’ll see earth with many other planets revolving around the sun. Go even FURTHER out to the Milky Way and then to the other numerous galaxies in this universe. At this point, you aren’t even a speck of dust.
Is that not crazy?! It literally rocked me and is still leaving me in awe of how glorious and majestic God really really is.
Now, zooming back in. You see yourself and realize that you truly aren’t anything. You are nothing. We aren’t amounted to anything in this vast universe.
Once I realized that I, as a human being, am not even a speck, I started to realize that the things we dearly hold on to are considered even lowlier than specks of dust! The clothes that I treasure, the shoes that I hold onto, the food that I crave—they are all so unbelievably trivial…..
I repent to the entire tumblr-world for writing the things I wrote in my last entry about me willing to give up all my possessions for His glory. I don’t think I really took into account the weight of those words and because of that, those words are deemed useless and faulty.
However, thank You dear Jesus for Your grace and allowing me to redeem those words and bring them back to life.
I am nothing but a speck (not even) of dust in this world, yet You decided to choose me. Out of the millions of galaxies and planets, You declared “let there be light” onto this place called earth. You created the land and the seas, You separated the day from the night. You created the sun and the stars to remind us of your incredible vastness. You made trees and flowers and birds and animals.
And lastly, you blew into dust and formed man.
You didn’t have to do this. You didn’t have to breathe life into my dry bones yet You did! I can’t understand it at all. You know everything that I did, am doing, and will do. You knew that I would commit heinous sins of sexual immorality, idolatry, gluttony, greed, pride, etc. But You still chose me, a wretched, undeserving sinner.
All I can say is, Jesus, thank You for Your grace. The grace that “teaches us to say ‘No’ to ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright and godly lives in this present age, while we wait for the blessed hope—the glorious appearing of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ, who gave himself for us to redeem us from all wickedness and to purify for himself a people that are his very own, eager to do what is good” (Titus 2:12-14).
I cannot wait for the day where I will get to see You face to face!!
I will abandon all things that hinder me from freely running to You, whether they be materialistic possessions, humanistic ideas, or fleshly desires and cravings.
(and I say this forreals now, keep me accountable brothers and sisters!)
So, awaken! Oh you who are asleep! Awaken!
For the glory of the Risen King is coming and there isn’t much time do anything else but to get on our knees and seek His beauty and holiness.
