Relative Size

This is a picture of the Earth. The pale blue dot in the topmost sunbeam. It was taken from a spacecraft 4 billion miles away from Earth at the time.

That small, blue dot is Earth. And on that small blue dot is every human, vast landscape, forest, mountain, ocean, plant, bird, beast, hope, dream, and plan.

And bigger than it all is Yahweh. Bigger than the Earth and everything on it. Bigger than the sunbeams. Bigger than the whole of this picture. Bigger than the universe. And yet not separate from the universe.

We must have faith to see, but we must see to have faith.

Most of the world is looking at things through a pair of binoculars. These are perpetually held up to one’s face and distorting their perception of the world. The problems seem to be much larger and more terrifying than they actually are, and the beauties of this world, which are so much bigger than the ills, cannot be seen at all in their entirety as the binoculars only allow someone to see certain parts of the whole at a time.

But in reality, the whole is much bigger than that piece one can see through the binoculars. Goodness is much greater than pain. And when, by faith, we remove the binocular eyes, we can see truth and judge creation with wisdom and righteousness.