Yesterday I had the opportunity to watch a DVD called 'Indescribable' with my Youth Group. It was incredible.
It took the example of a vast huge universe created by God, and truly put in context. Sure, I figured the vacuum of space was wicked big and insurmountable. But, this movie showed me how much there is, and how much more there is. Ugh, it hurts my head thinking about it, but it's great at the same time.
One particular portion of the video caught my eye, when it showed a picture taken by Voyager 1. What happened was, when the spacecraft was drifting out of reach of our control from here on earth, the NASA dudes had Voyager 1 turn around for one last series of shots. It took sixty consecutive pictures as it spanned across all of where it had come from. One of the pictures, labeled
The pale blue planet was beamed back, across space, from the spacecraft to Earth. And it really struck me. Here it is.
What appears to be black space with sun rays bouncing off of the spacecraft is actually a lot more. It's hard to see, but in the farthest right ray of sun, there is a tiny tiny blue dot in the middle of the light, It's earth, taken from over 3 billion miles away.
This is an enlarged shot, showing the bright spec, suspended in the light. What hit me, was how, deep deep in space, a piece of machinery was able to capture a picture of Earth, showing how small it really is, and how unimportant it is. That although so many lives, wars, people, and events have transpired in the history of our entire existence, we are nothing but a small pixel in an image so vast.
I was so taken aback by the thought, that after I got home from the movie, I raced out and got more and more information on the picture. It fascinated me so much. This picture should define how we live our lives in Christ.
All sin is rooted in selfishness, and doing things for ourselves. But how the heck can we even dare boast of ourselves, and think of sinning when in reality, and all honesty, we are barely even a blip in space. How can we dare betray His name? In His awesome glory? Yet, we all sin, and we are all truly pathetic creatures. Even on our small pebble in the sky, barely visible, we spit on the name of God and defy him with everything we are.
But, what took me the most, was that even in our bitter defiance, he rains down a beam of golden light on us. He came and died for us, giving us a chance to live with Him forever. The whole universe declares His glory, day in and day out, never ceasing. But we are corrupted by sin. And us, being basically the most rebellious thing in His creation(Yet the most precious to Him) are covered by His love. Wow. It just fell upon me last night.
The fact that even in our sin, our selfishness, our insignificantness in space as a whole, we are the most important thing to Him. That picture only more clearly clarified that for me, and I'm thankful for it. Praise God! :D
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