WWWWOOOOOWWWW.

Today, again, i was reminded just how small i am. I took my roommates to Griffith Park
today... up to the Observatory... and it was amazing. There's something about being up there that i'm falling in love with. When i stand up there looking out at how big everything is... and then realize that this is but a tiny chunk of God's grand creation... i am reminded just how small i am. How small i am, and how wonderfully big God is. Last week when i went up there for the first time i told my friend that i wanted to wonder at the work of God's hand, and being up there gave me that wonder. Today as i was sitting up there on the roof, looking east up at the snow capped mountains... a little kid pulled himself up onto the ledge to see and with all the wonder in the heart of a 4 year old yelled "WWWWOOOOWWW". That brother yelled with everything he had what was stuck in the composure of my heart. I thought that same thing... but the wonder of a kid made it known to the world just how cool it was to look out at something sooo sweet! I want that kind of wonder. That i could look out and with everything i got tell God just how spectacular it really is! You know... not even to do such only standing on the mountain top, but in the everyday moments that God shows up!
There's something powerful about realizing how small i am. It reminds me that i am but a small part in the story of God's HUGE redemptive plan.... and how my God wants to ravish me with his love. That i play a part in his story, a small one, but a mighty one.
I also realize how small the trials of my life really are. When you look out at millions of people, in such a hurting city, you realize that the things you're dealing with are small in the grand scheme of things. But even so... God has every detail of my life, and the lives of millions other under control. He knows the pains, ailments, trials, temptations, and worries of every one of us and it hurts him to see it all. God is mighty... and nothing in this world could get in the way of him pouring out His love on us!
Being up there was wonderful. The wonder i have in the enormousness of God... it's life breathing.
"In all these things we are more than conquers through him who loved us. For i am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor power, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord." Romans 8:37-39

"But we have this treasure in jars of clay, to show that the surpassing power belongs to God and not to us. We are afflicted in every way, but not crushed; perplexed, but not driven to despair, persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed; always carrying in the body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be manifested in our bodies." 2 Cor. 4:7-12