HOW INSIGNIFICANT

It's fascinating to read all of the speculation of recent. It seems that people really need to figure out what's going on in the world. What with the weather, Israel, Iraq; we rarely have time to focus on one news story for too long these days. If you randomly search websites like I have a tendency to, you'll find all sorts of predictions. Global warming is a big suspicion. Heck, I've even heard a prediction that our military was performing underwater nuclear bomb testing. Of course, I'm sure you know that the predictions of most intrigue to me have to do with end-time prophecy fulfillment. Just last night I researched two sites that discussed what each current event meant for the earth. It would seem that we are spiraling toward the end in a hurry these days. I haven't been the Lord's for that long, but people tell me that according to some folk, we've been heading toward the end for a long time.
Funny, but it seems to me that people miss the point. If the reporters and the webmasters are correct, and we are heading toward the end, what are we supposed to do about it? Let's suppose the Christians are correct for a minute. If we take just the most cursory glance at the Bible, we see that the first few lines make some big claims. "In the beginning, God..." It seems that He made everything. Yes, everything. Then, if we want to keep going, we find out that God even knows the names of the stars! "He (God) determines the number of the stars and calls them each by name. Great is our Lord and mighty in power; His understanding has no limit." Psalm 147.4-5. Wow. That's an enormous and unfathomable claim. So not only did God make each individual animal and each plant species, but He made and knows all stars and all galaxies.
Well, I have to go one more. He also made everyone of us and calls us by name too. (John 10.3)
WHAT'S THE POINT OF ALL THIS?
The point of all this is that people are focusing on the wrong thing. Re-read what I wrote above. He made all the stars and knows them by name. That's incomprehensible to us, isn't it? Yet, if we just believe that, then think about the fact that He's even interested in us at all. I'd make a horrible god because I'd look out at the stars all proud of myself and forget about foolish people. But He doesn't forget about us because He is an amazing and magnificent God. There are no words to describe our God, but people have been struggling to find the right ones for centuries. He cares about each and every one of us. He wants to share every intimate detail of our lives with us. Do awful things like hurricanes happen? Of course they do. The earth fell subject to sin way back in the beginning too. Is God there with us when they happen? Yes. He promises to love us; to be our rock and our strength in time of need. (Psalm 46.1)
So, whether or not the earth is ending tomorrow is not the correct question. Rather, the question is, DO you want the Lord that knows every star by name to be your Lord too?
Think about it.