When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have ordained; what is man, that you think of him? What is the son of man, that you care for him? For you have made him a little lower than God, and crowned him with glory and honor.
Psalms 8:3-5
In 1990, as Voyager 1 left the solar system, it took a photo of Earth that is now known as the "pale blue dot" photo. It showed how small the Earth is in the vastness of the universe.
Carl Sagan said of it, Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there--on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds."
How awesome is YHWH and His love for us! He has created the entire universe, but yet He pays attention to us.
"With great power comes great responsibility," as uncle Ben told Peter Parker in Spiderman.
God has given us humans great power over our planet, and so we have a great responsibility to look after it well.
Father, thank You for loving us. Let this remind me of Your awesomeness, and appreciate Your special care for us human beings in spite of how small we are. When I am tempted to sin, let me remember this and respond to Your love with obedience. In Jesus' name, amen.
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