Our God is An Awesome God!!

As I was in the plane flying home from Texas yesterday afternoon, I spent the majority of the trip looking out the window, and thinking. An excerpt from one of my favorite books, Beyond the Gathering Storm, (pg. 241-242) came to my mind. ~~ Henry stretched out to look at the softly drifting clouds above them. He grinned as he watched Danny mimic him - on one side, leaning his head on one little fist. "The clouds are white," mused the little boy. "They're white," agreed Henry. "Sometimes they're black." Henry turned to study the little boy's face. "Do you know what makes the difference?" "Uh-uh." He shook his head. "The sun." "The sun?" "Yes. If the clouds are too thick to let the sun shine through, we have dark, cloudy days. Sometimes they even look mean and ugly. If the sun can shine on them, they look white and fluffy. Pretty. If we could look at them from the other side, way up where the sun lived, they would always look woolly white and fluffy." "You mean on God's side?" "God's side," said Henry. "He has a very different way of seeing things." Henry was aware that Amber had ceased stacking dishes. Was she, too, thinking about the clouds - the sun - and God? "I like the white ones best," Danny noted. "I think we all do. But we need the dark ones. They bring the rain - make things live and grow. But we're always glad when they have done their work and gone away." ~~ I like this illustration, and to remember that God always sees the full picture, beyond the clouds, beyond the little things in life. It also occurred to me, as it always does when flying, how indescribably tiny we are when compared with the country, the world, and the universe. When soaring approximately 15,000 feet above the earth, even large buildings and supposed "sky-scrapers" are reduced to small dots in the landscape. These thoughts naturally flowed into thoughts of how great our God truly is - to have created everything, to be so much greater than anything we know or can imagine. Thinking how tiny we are, and how great and mighty God is, and then to think and remember that God cares for us - as insignificant and sinful as we are, He cares for us... It's mind-boggling! That such an awesome God as our God is should care for us, should ordain every small event in our lives, should count every hair on our heads, and hold our every tear in His hands, should LOVE us!... Does it not stretch your imagination and inspire your heart to worship?! What an amazing God we truly have! Too often we get caught up in the petty concerns of our daily lives and forget how great a God we serve. Nothing is too small to beneath His notice, or too big to be beyond His power to cure! Becoming a servant in the land of our Lord would be a privilege unfathomable to the human mind, and yet He has made us, not servants, but His sons and daughters, and heirs to His kingdom! It is too much to comprehend! We cannot possibly thank God enough, but we can render Him our obedience and submission and worship! He alone is worthy of our awe!