Who has known the mind of the Lord, and who has been His counselor? Romans 11:34

​“I am the Lord and there is none other,” God would tell His children repeatedly. Why? Because they were not small enough.  Their disobedience and worship of other gods exposed their arrogance. They had decided who was worthy of their worship, whom they would honor and obey.

William Beebe was a biologist, explorer, and author, and he was also a personal friend of Theodore Roosevelt. He used to visit Roosevelt at Sagamore Hill, his home near Oyster Bay, Long Island. He tells of a little game they used to play together. After an evening of talk, they would go outside onto the lawn and search the sky until they found the faint spot of light beyond the lower left corner of the great square of Pegasus. One of them would recite: “That is the Spiral Galaxy in Andromeda. It is as large as the Milky Way. It is one of a hundred million galaxies. It consists of one hundred billion suns, each larger than our sun.”  Then Roosevelt would grin at Beebe and say, “Now I think we are small enough! Let’s go to bed.”

If there is an issue about which I’ve decided not to obey, I am not small enough. If I tell God He is shortsighted, I am not small enough. If I tell God that He doesn’t rule well and life will never be fair, I am not small enough. If I feel qualified, in any way, to make a judgment against God, I am not small enough. I am not even a grain of sand in the vast universe. He, who could move the Himalayan mountain range with a word, is the very one I accuse? No, I am not small enough.

Job was once angry and voiced a long diatribe. At then end, God spoke about His own vast-ness and asked Job about his own small-ness. “Where were you when I hung the stars?”  At that point, Job deferred, trusted, and was comforted.

I am small. You are not. But oh, Father, You are infinitely tender with ‘small’. I am safe and I worship. Amen