Sometimes people say that they cannot believe that,
if there is a God,
he would take interest in such a tiny speck of reality
called humanity on Planet Earth.
The universe, they say, is so vast, it makes man utterly insignificant.
Why would God have bothered to create such a microscopic speck called the earth
and humanity and then get involved with us?
Beneath this question is a fundamental failure
to see what the universe is about.
It is about the greatness of God,
not the significance of man.
God made man small and the universe big
to say something about himself.
And he says it for us to learn and enjoy—
namely, that he is infinitely great and powerful
and wise and beautiful.
The more the Hubble Telescope sends back to us
about the unfathomable depths of space,
the more we should stand in awe of God.
The disproportion between us and the universe
is a parable
about the disproportion between us and God.
And it is an understatement.
But the point is not to nullify us
but to glorify him.
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