It's a Small World, After All
"For God so loved the world..."
I think I had this verse memorized before I was born, and yet yesterday I heard it for the first time.
Imagine this: you build your dream house in the perfect location and decorate it with beautiful and personally meaningful art and furniture; you fill it with the people you love, creating memories and relationships. But then you notice that something is wrong: an army of carpenter ants has also moved in and is tearing your dream house apart. "It's got to be condemned," an inspector says. What do you do?
I'd fight. I'd do whatever I could to save it.
And it's just a house.
God created the earth and he loved it. Not just the people, but the trees and the weather patterns and the colors and the minerals and the slimy worms. Everything worked together intricately. Can't you just see him admiring his handiwork—so tiny and precious and elaborately designed. And then can't you feel his sorrow when his creatures chose to hurt themselves and the precious little habitat he made for them. Why didn't he just crumple up his project and toss it in the trash?
Because he loved it.
"God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him."
I'm just one little person looking up into the vastness toward God, but I want to do my part to show him how much I love his world, his people, and him.
How about you?
I think I had this verse memorized before I was born, and yet yesterday I heard it for the first time.
Imagine this: you build your dream house in the perfect location and decorate it with beautiful and personally meaningful art and furniture; you fill it with the people you love, creating memories and relationships. But then you notice that something is wrong: an army of carpenter ants has also moved in and is tearing your dream house apart. "It's got to be condemned," an inspector says. What do you do?
I'd fight. I'd do whatever I could to save it.
And it's just a house.
God created the earth and he loved it. Not just the people, but the trees and the weather patterns and the colors and the minerals and the slimy worms. Everything worked together intricately. Can't you just see him admiring his handiwork—so tiny and precious and elaborately designed. And then can't you feel his sorrow when his creatures chose to hurt themselves and the precious little habitat he made for them. Why didn't he just crumple up his project and toss it in the trash?Because he loved it.
"God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him."
I'm just one little person looking up into the vastness toward God, but I want to do my part to show him how much I love his world, his people, and him.
How about you?
posted by Heather Gemmen Wilson at
7:08 AM
5 Comments:
I feel the same way. I'm so convicted that I'm going to buy a smaller SUV ... one with only three times the power that I need.
And I'll eat less. Maybe only six times the calories I need to survive.
I'm with you baby. I just don't want to change my lifestyle too much.
Is this a teaser for your upcoming book? It sounds just like it.
'I want to do my part to show him how much I love his world, his people, and him.'
That's exactly how I feel too. I'm so overwhelmed by His love, there's nothing I'd rather talk about. But at the same time I feel so frustrated. You know, I'm a shy person and don't talk that much. Now I'm in college and we get lessons about human development. A lot of people at the university believe in the evolution. I don't. Lately one of my teachers said something like 'Of course everybody knows that we're coming from the apes'. And I didn't say a word. I wanted to say something, but I didn't do it. Even now I still don't understand why I didn't say anything.
Please pray that God will give me (and all other christians) the strength to do what I have to do and to say what I have to say.
God bless you.
Jaci, I did just pray for you, and I have complete confidence that you will find what you are looking for. Ask God for money or fame, and you will probably think he doesn't exist; but if you ask him for wisdom to do what is right, he will give you more than you ask.
Thanks for your prayer Heather! I absolutely have to share the following: I’m subscribed to a ‘Bible Diary’, a small bible study that you get per email every day. And guess what it was about today…‘Talk about God’! And I got also the latest newsletter from Gerald Troost (a dutch christian singer) and he writed also about telling other people about God. It’s so amazing! Praise the Lord and keep on praying! :D
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