How Big Is God?

How big do we look to God as He looks down from heaven?  Psalm 113:6 says that God humbles himself to behold the things that are in heaven and in the earth.

I kicked an ant nest and watched as those tiny creatures scrambled everywhere. How insignificant and tiny they appeared to me.

To a person looking down from a skyscraper, the people are not much bigger than an ant.  From a jetliner flying over the country, we can’t even see or discern human beings.

Isaiah said the nations are as a drop of a bucket and as the dust of the balance.   God sitteth on the circle of the earth; the inhabitants  are as grasshoppers. He stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in.  (Isaiah 40:15, 22)

David said, “When I consider the heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars which thou hast ordained: What is man that thou art mindful of him?” (Psalm 8:3-4).

God is so great, and we are so small. Why does He even consider us?

Have you ever walked through a cemetery and seen gravestone markers indicating that the person buried there has been dead for over 100 years? Are there any grandchildren or great-grandchildren who even remember who that person is?  In Psalm 103:14-16, we are compared to dust and are like grass or a flower of the field.  The wind passes over it, and it is gone.  The place thereof shall know it no more. On the tombstone, our life is described as the little dash between the years of our birth and our death.

Sometimes, as we grow older, we feel we have lived a really long time.  But the Psalmist declared, “Behold thou hast made my days as an handbreadth; and mine age is as nothing before thee:  verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity.”  (Psalm 39:5).

Have you ever pondered how short our lifespans are in the timeline of all recorded and non-recorded history?

Moses wrote, “Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God.” (Psalm 90:2) We are mere mortals. God is immortal, eternal, and infinite.

Paul describes God as being “eternal, immortal, invisible” (1 Timothy 1:17). Genesis 1:1 starts with “In the beginning God.”  He was there before creation.  John 1:1, 14 declares, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” “And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us, and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.”

God is infinite, unlimited, and unending.  He is omnipotent, omniscient, and omnipresent. The psalmist wrote,  “Great is our Lord and of great power; his understanding is infinite.” (Psalm 147:5).   And He is perfectly holy, without any sin whatsoever.  (Hebrews 4:15)

Imagine, if you will, that you are invited to a private, personal job interview with the CEO of a large corporation.  How would you dress and how would you prepare? If you were accused of a crime and ordered to appear before a judge along with your attorney, how would you prepare and dress?  Further, imagine if you were invited for a personal interview with the governor of a state or the president of a country.  What would your attitude, your dress, and your demeanor be?   Jesus is far greater than a CEO, a judge, a governor, or a president and deserves the utmost respect.

For a saved person, Jesus did say, ”Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you.” (John 15:14). But notice the qualification of obedience. He is our advocate (1 John 2:1), our mediator (1 Timothy 2:5), our elder brother (Romans 8:15, 16, 29), and our Everlasting Father (Isaiah 9:6).  We can always love, trust, confide in, and pray to Him.

But He is also God, and we need to show all honor and respect, and worship toward Him,  Peter, who walked close in fellowship with Jesus, wrote, “Be ye holy; for I am holy.  And if ye call on the Father, who without respect of persons judgeth according to every man’s work, pass the time of your sojourning here in fear: “ (1 Peter 1:16-17).  When John, the apostle of love, saw the Lord and was commissioned to write the book of Revelation, he fell down before the Lord as dead. (Revelation 1:13-17). Solomon wrote, “The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy is understanding.”  (Proverbs 9:10)

This Jesus whom we worship and serve is Lord.  He is king of kings and Lord of lords. (1 Timothy 6:16-17) He is the one who humbled himself to purchase our salvation. We must honor him for who he truly is. “And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross. Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name: That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth; And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.” (Philippians 2:8-12).

If we really recognize who God is, we cannot help but fall down and worship Him, just as Abraham, Moses, Joshua, Isaiah, Ezekiel, Daniel, the apostles, and John did.  He is worthy of all respect, honor, glory, majesty, and praise that we can possibly give Him.

As born-again Christians in this new year, let’s determine to give all honor, respect, reverence, and obedience to our Savior, King of kings and Lord of lords.