Little People, Big Grace

by Laura Kuhns
Have you ever realized just how small you are? If you have then you will understand when I say the realization will do more than just send shivers up and down your spine. Stand beside the ocean, or gaze into the stars from an open field, and try to comprehend how vast the universe is. It will blow your mind!

I admit that I often avoid thinking about it because it scares me. However, when I do allow my mind to wander, I begin to feel more like an amoeba on a slide in Biology lab than a human on a planet, or even an ant on a picnic blanket.

Psalm 8:4 says, “What is man that you are mindful of him, and the son of man that you care for him?”

Now usually I would blow over this verse, but when you put it in perspective, it’s huge!

Check out the pictures I’ve added (high tech, I know). The first one shows you just how small our home planet is compared to the other planets. The second picture shows you just how small it is compared to the sun. Now pan out and imagine just how big the Milky Way galaxy and all of space really is. And it’s still expanding!

Over the years I have come to realize that God’s view looking down is very different from our view looking up. When I imagine it all from God’s view, the verse from Psalm 8 fits really well. In such a vast universe, why should God be mindful of the sinful human race?

I mean, let’s face it, God does not need us. He is God, and nothing we do or say is necessary to fulfill or sustain Him.

Yet God in His bountiful grace is mindful of us. Not only that, but He makes plans for us, He cares for us and He extends new mercies toward us every morning.

I read in a book once that we live in a pocket of His grace, and how true that is!

Like a toddler learning to walk, I seem to only fall and never really getting anywhere in my walk of faith. The beauty of this pocket of grace I find myself in, however, is that it provides a cushion for me to fall on. Then He reaches down with His hand of mercy and, with never-ending forgiveness, pulls me back up to my feet and encourages me to continue on.

My point?

As big as the universe is, God’s grace is even bigger. His grace covers you and me, despite how small we are.

Remember that when you seem to be only falling and you feel as if getting up again is just too much. If God is big enough to create the universe, and still sees you in your struggles, you can bet He will give you the strength to get up and the grace to continue on.