Isn’t it amazing when a person is flying to a destination, seat belt fastened, the plane takes off, soars through the sky and just about the time you dose off, or finish a snack, the flight is ready for landing.

The plane starts to descend down through the clouds and as the wheels are lowered, engines slow down, and you near the runway; you look out the window, view little buildings, evenly marked landscapes, and see tiny cars and trucks. Have you seen people walking around; or maybe they are just too small to see?

How many times have you talked with people and a comment was made that the year is slipping by so quickly. I mean it seemed like we were just wishing everyone a “Happy New Year”. Now it is nearing the end of summer. Our vacation time is over, you are back to work and it will soon be fall.

But wait. You may be hustling all about, getting your child to school, taking your junior high child to ball practice, and your 15 yr. old to drivers training. Dinner may be late tonight.

You are busy, non stop, but you are doing a lot of the same thing everyday. You don’t have time for yourself. There is just too much to do. Perhaps you are getting ready for a pity party, but you notice that you are the only one attending.

You can’t do all of your duties by yourself. Yes, you may still need to be a taxi cab driver, taking your children around town, then home to start dinner, laundry etc. But stop and consider.

Do you know you are loved by God? Do you know that He wants to help you with your daily tasks? Did you know, as much as you may think highly of yourself, that God doesn’t want you to do things without His help?

Do you think He can help? That you are that important?

I read something a couple of weeks ago, that I want to share with you. Yes, there maybe times that we feel  all alone, and feel like a tiny speck in this vast universe, but I am reminded how great our God is and the fact that He hung the world in space. He loves each of us so much that He sent His Son to die for each of us. Though we may feel like a little speck of dust, we must be worth so much more for Christ to have died for us.

Scientists have said that the Hubble telescope took flight to give us a look through its powerful lens into places we had never known or seen before. Through this mammoth telescope, they discovered a staggering number of other galaxies beyond our own. Our tiny earth is just in one tiny galaxy, and our Milky Way galaxy is just a little disk-shaped spiral when compared with the expanse of other galaxies. Sure, we have our sun and moon-our little spot along with the planets that surround us. Yet the Hubble telescope has pictures that show we are just one of many. In other words, we aren’t quite the center of the universe we once thought we were.

In fact, scientists reported that each of the 100 billion to 200 billion glaxies they believe they have discovered, has up to 100 billion stars in it. And if 100 to 200 billion galaxies each containing up to 100 billion stars is too large for you to grasp, just consider the galaxy Andromeda.

Scientists also have reported that Andromeda is roughly 2.5 million light-years away from us. (light travels at about 186.282 miles per second.) So, if you had friends living in Andromeda and you sent them a message at the speed of a radio wave (which travels at the speed of light), you could receive their reply in about 5 million years. You can’t send a text message to Andromeda regardless of how intelligent your smart phone might be…. God introduces Himself to us as Elohim, the great and powerful one. He wants to establish right from the start that He is the all-knowing, all-powerful, ever- present one.

Many times, we may get downhearted and wonder why time slips by so quickly and we feel like we are spinning our wheels, doing the same thing day after day. I believe if we were to look through God’s binoculars at ourselves, we would be large enough in His heart, for Him to love and care for us. A God of love. What other explanation could it be. He loves us. We have the opportunity every day to share His love through our daily routine and our care for others. Share His love to those who need a kind word, or a smile. Share His salvation plan to others. Why should we keep such great information from others that walk the same street we walk and let them know we have a great, powerful, loving God

“All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. John 1:3           I can do all things through Christ which strengthenth me. Phil. 4:13”

We may not always get that view from an airplane, but we can look in Scripture and read that we are to love and serve a great God. Let us press on.

For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have everlasting life. John 3:16

Life is so short, so take time and consider, count your blessings and then enjoy them.

Jim Cymbala: www.christianbooks.com/christian living. Louie Giglio you tube videos. Hubblesite.org; NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. Holy Bible KJV